NYPD officer charged with murder in off-duty shooting
The New York City police officer accused of fatally shooting one woman and wounding another while off duty has been identified as Yvonne Wu, 31.
Wu was charged late Thursday with murder and attempted murder in the double shooting Wednesday in Brooklyn.
Officers responded to reports of a shooting at a home in the Bensonhurst neighborhood and found Wu outside the home, police said. She confessed that she had shot someone, they said.
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