{"id":1836052,"date":"2023-02-05T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836052"},"modified":"2023-02-05T11:50:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T16:50:17","slug":"nypd-officer-fighting-for-his-life-after-being-shot-in-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nypd-officer-fighting-for-his-life-after-being-shot-in-head\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD Officer \u2018Fighting For His Life\u2019 After Being Shot In Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnypd-officer-fighting-for-his-life-after-being-shot-in-head%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836052&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Off-duty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Policing<\/a> According to authorities, the officer is in critical condition following being shot in the head in a robbery attempt on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was identified as a 26 year-old veteran and five-year veteran of the force. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nypd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Police Department<\/a>Officials said that he traveled with a relative from Brooklyn to purchase a vehicle through a social media transaction.<\/p>\n<p>At his arrest, the suspect pulled out an assault rifle. \u201cannounced a robbery,\u201d The officer was then struck in the head, according to Michael Baldassano of the NYPD Detective Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Keechant Sewell of the NYPD stated that the officer was in critical condition and was transferred to Brookdale Hospital. \u201cPlease keep this young officer in your prayers. He is currently fighting for his life,\u201d Sewell said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can watch live as Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Sewell update you on the Brooklyn police investigation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CEIBPcvIP3\">https:\/\/t.co\/CEIBPcvIP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/1622081036183285760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police sought the help of the public to find the suspect. Baldassano stated that he fled the scene of the shooting. He encouraged anyone with information about the suspect to call CrimeStoppers on 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>Baldassano also claimed that the police had \u201cno reason to believe\u201d Although the suspect was aware that the target of the attempted theft was an off-duty officer in the police force, he said that the shooting remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Adams, New York City Democratic Mayor, said that the wounded officer was married and has children. \u201cWe will catch the person responsible for this act,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the relative who accompanied off-duty officers was not hurt. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/off-duty\/articles\/off-duty-nypd-officer-shot-in-head-in-robbery-attempt-m3T4jysMvErXrDBe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Per the New York Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, stated that legislators are living in a &#8220;necessary&#8221; environment. \u201cfantasy world\u201d when they talk about crime as if it\u2019s not real. \u201cWe\u2019ve asked for help before. We\u2019re asking and demanding help now,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Hochul, New York Democratic Governor of New York, conveyed her best wishes to the officer. She also denounced gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am praying for the recovery of an off-duty [NYPD] officer who was shot during an attempted robbery last night,\u201d Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovKathyHochul\/status\/1622259030516289541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweet<\/a>. \u201cEveryone deserves to feel safe in our state. I will keep doing everything in my power to combat illegal gun trafficking and the gun violence epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty New York City police officer is in critical condition after being shot in the head during a robbery attempt Saturday evening, according to authorities. The officer, identified as a 26-year-old and five-year veteran of the New York Police Department, travelled with a relative to Ruby Street in Brooklyn to purchase a vehicle in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1836055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9469,5639,3848,6703,4707,4049],"class_list":["post-1836052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-fighting","tag-head","tag-life","tag-nypd","tag-officer","tag-shot"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}