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U.S. NEWS Monday 30 SepteMber 2019
NYPD officer shot

and killed during

struggle with suspect

NEW YORK (AP) — A New not been fired, Monahan
York City police officer said.
grappling with an armed Monahan said the suspect
man died early Sunday in was on probation until 2022
the Bronx after being shot for a narcotics-related ar-
three times, possibly with his rest last year and had sev-
own gun. eral prior arrests, including Emergency personnel walk near the scene of a fatal shooting of
The 27-year-old suspect a burglary conviction in a New York City police officer in the Bronx borough of New York,
also died after five officers Rockland County. Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019.
fired at him, police officials Mulkeen had served nearly Associated Press
said. He has not been pub- seven years with the de-
licly identified yet. partment and worked out who was accidentally shot "It has to stop." Mulkeen's
The NYPD identified the of the 47th precinct. He by fellow officers in Febru- death comes as the NYPD
slain officer as 33-year-old lived with his girlfriend, an ary while confronting a rob- has declared a mental
Brian Mulkeen. NYPD police officer in the bery suspect. "We've been health emergency amid a
"We lost a hero this eve- Bronx's 44th precinct. here too often. We know spate of suicides by police
ning," Mayor Bill de Blasio Monahan called the officer the directions to get here," officers. Nine NYPD officers
said at a news conference "brave," and said he was Pat Lynch, the president of have taken their own lives
outside Jacobi Medical "doing the job we asked New York City's Police Be- this year, a disturbing trend
Center in the Bronx. him to do, a job that New nevolent Association, said that is also happening
Mulkeen was patrolling the Yorkers needed him to do." at the press conference. throughout the country.q
streets around a city apart- The track and field program
ment complex at around at Fordham University in the
12:30 a.m. as part of a Bronx posted that Mulkeen
unit investigating potential was an alumnus, and had
gang activity, Chief of De- recently become a volun-
partment Terence Monah- teer coach. The program
an said. said that as a student, he
Mulkeen and his partner was part of the 2008 team
tried to apprehend a man that won the Metropoli-
who had fled question- tan Outdoor Track & Field
ing, and a struggle on the Championship, a first for
ground ensued, Monahan the program.
said. New York Gov. Andrew
As the men wrestled, Mul- Cuomo, at an unrelated
keen's body camera re- event, said Mulkeen "made
corded him saying, "He's the greatest sacrifice. He
reaching for it! He's reach- put his life on the line and
ing for it!" he lost it in service to the
"Officer Mulkeen's gun fired people of this city."
five times," Monahan said. The NYPD has had a diffi-
"At this point, it is not clear cult year, with a number of
who fired Officer Mulkeen's tragic deaths.
gun." Mulkeen is the second
A .32-caliber revolver that NYPD officer killed in the
police say belonged to the line of duty, following De-
man was recovered. It had tective Brian Simonsen,

Terrorism charge

against SUV driver in

suburban Chicago mall

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP) — Garcia also was charged
A man accused of driving with felony criminal dam-
an SUV through a suburban age to property."Chaos en-
Chicago shopping mall sued among the patrons of
was charged Sunday with the mall. Hysterical patrons
a state terrorism and or- were running and jumping
dered held without bond. in attempts to evade the
Police in Schaumburg said vehicle's path. Stores were
the Cook County state's at- locking their gates and
torney had authorized the sheltering people in the
charge against Javier Gar- rear of stores for safety pur-
cia, 22, of Palatine, Illinois. poses," McGlone said.q