Four Police Officers Wounded in Brooklyn Shootout
SHEEPSHEAD BAY (AP) — A shootout between police and a man barricaded in a Brooklyn home with a cache of weapons including what authorities described as an illegal, sawed-off military-style assault rifle ended with four officers and the suspect wounded.
"We have now had eight — that's correct, eight — members of the department shot in the last four months," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday at a news conference held at Lutheran Medical Center where the officers were taken. "And this is the second time in the last 24 hours that police have been fired upon by armed assailants."
He said all of the shootings "were committed with illegal guns that came from out of state."