NY cop wounded in hatchet attack
26 Oct 2014 5:05 AM IST
A hatchet-wielding attacker charged a group of New York City police officers posing for a photograph on Thursday, wounded two, one critically, before the assailant was shot dead, the police said.
The officers were on foot patrol when they were asked by a freelance photographer to pose for a picture on a Queens street at about 2pm, a NYPD spokesman said. Suddenly a man carrying a hatchet charged the officers, swinging it and striking one officer in the right arm and then swinging it again and striking a second officer in the head.
The remaining two officers fired their weapons at the man, hitting him. The suspect, whose identity was not yet confirmed but who was said to be approximately 32 years old, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The officers were on foot patrol when they were asked by a freelance photographer to pose for a picture on a Queens street at about 2pm, a NYPD spokesman said. Suddenly a man carrying a hatchet charged the officers, swinging it and striking one officer in the right arm and then swinging it again and striking a second officer in the head.
The remaining two officers fired their weapons at the man, hitting him. The suspect, whose identity was not yet confirmed but who was said to be approximately 32 years old, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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