NEW YORK ( AP) — Four more suspects have been taken into custody following the deadly shooting of a New York City police officer who was responding to a break-in in Brooklyn, authorities said today.
They include a man who had struggled with an officer at the shooting scene on Monday. They also include two people who were initially believed to be witnesses, plus a suspected getaway driver, according to NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.
Officer Peter Figoski was shot in the face early Monday.
Two years after he could have retired from police work with a full pension, Figoski was responding to a routine call — backing up other officers checking out a report of an apartment break- in in Brooklyn.
He was met by a fleeing suspect who shot the 22- year police veteran in the face and killed him, police said.
While Figoski’s partner chased down the suspected gunman, police were still looking for a second suspect in what they said might have been a drug-related holdup and became the first deadly shooting of an officer this year.
Lamont Pride, 27, was arrested on murder charges. There was no answer to calls at a Greensboro, N.C., address where he told police he lived, and no phone listed for a Brooklyn home. It’s wasn’t clear when he would be arraigned, and there was no information on whether he had an attorney.
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