{"id":854345,"date":"2021-10-06T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T01:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=854345"},"modified":"2021-10-06T21:14:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T01:14:31","slug":"suspect-dies-after-firing-shots-at-n-y-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-dies-after-firing-shots-at-n-y-police-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect dies after firing shots at N.Y. police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fsuspect-dies-after-firing-shots-at-n-y-police-officers%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=854345&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--><div id=\"attachment_2497028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2497028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police lights. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:00 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, October 6, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A suspect wanted for violating an order of protection involving his daughter and the girl\u2019s mother back in June, has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following an exchange of shots between himself and police officers in Harlem.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the New York Police Department reported 23-year-old Antonio Armstrong barricaded himself in an apartment when officers arrived to serve him a parole warrant. Authorities said they initially were going to take the suspect into custody, as they also believed he was connected to a homicide in September, when Armstrong opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>After some time, Armstrong reportedly stopped responding during the standoff, where they discovered he had shot himself in the head in his apartment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the gun that was recovered in the apartment. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dfK1VplR68\">pic.twitter.com\/dfK1VplR68<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/1445783463752200195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNegotiators began a dialogue with the suspect, over time the suspect did not respond,\u201d said Chief of Department Rodney Harrison with the NYPD. \u201cEmergency services unit were able to gain a visual inside the apartment. The suspect appeared to be lying on the ground inside the living room. The officers then entered the apartment and observed the suspect was motionless on the floor. The individual appeared to have a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No police were hurt during the incident.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-mcconnell-offers-short-term-debt-ceiling-solution\/\">Sen. McConnell Offers Short-Term Debt Ceiling Solution<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police lights. (AP PHOTO) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 6:00 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, October 6, 2021 A suspect wanted for violating an order of protection involving his daughter and the girl\u2019s mother &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854345","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}