2nd Assasination Attempt On NYPD Officers In The Bronx, Two Officers Injured

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Authorities say hours after an officer was shot in a marked police van, a second NYPD police officer was shot Sunday morning at the NYPD 41st Precinct building in the Bronx.

The first incident from Saturday night, which the video has since been released, happened on the 1000 block of Longwood Avenue.

The second incident took place at the 41st police precinct, where a female lieutenant was shot in the arm and rushed to Lincoln Hospital. She is expected to survive. Another officer suffered minor injuries.

Police say the suspect in the second shooting is in custody, and that it could possibly be linked to the first Saturday nights police-involved shooting in the Bronx.

The officer from the first shooting, a six-year veteran assigned to the 41st Precinct, was shot in the neck and chin on East 163rd and Barretto St. in Longwood just before 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea called the shooting an “attempted assassination.”

Police say the suspect walked up, started asking directions and then opened fire at the officer. The officer in the driver’s seat yelled once seeing the gun and put the van in drive, but he was struck by a bullet.

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