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RIP Officer Peter Figoski
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Lamont Pride, inset, was arrested and found guilty of armed robbery in North Carolina in 2009. He was busted near the shooting scene in Brooklyn today.
NYPost
A decorated NYPD cop was killed this morning after a gun-toting burglar shot him in cold blood inside a Brooklyn apartment building, police said.
Officer Peter Figoski, a 22-year veteran, responded to a “burglary in progress” at 25 Pine Street in Cypress Hills at 2:15 a.m. and was confronted by career criminal Lamont Pride, 27, police said.
Pride and his cohort initially hid from the first responding officers and were attempting to make their escape when Figoski and his partner surprised the thugs, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Without hesitation, Pride allegedly shot Figoski, 47, once in the face and took off on foot.
Meanwhile, Figoski’s partner, Glenn Estrada, 42, was tussling with Pride’s unidentified cohort nearby.
Estrada broke away and chased after Pride, slapping the cuffs on him several blocks away on Chestnut Street and Fulton Street, police said.
“I want to commend Officer Estrada, who had the presence of mind to focus on the man with the gun, and the courage to chase him down and capture him,” said Kelly.
Figoski was taken to Jamaica Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Mayor Bloomberg said he was awoken at 4 a.m. and told about the shooting.
"No one had any expectation [Figoski] would make it," the mayor said.
At a news conference, a somber Bloomberg, who had to notify Figoski's family of the incident, said cop shootings are "the worst part about being mayor."
Bloomberg added, “I also met with Officer Figoski’s former wife Paulette, and two of their daughters Carolyn, 16, and Corrine, 14, here at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, and thanked them on behalf of a deeply grateful New York City. There are two other daughters Christine, 20, and Caitlyn, 18, both who are upstate at college.
“Four daughters. I’m the father of two myself and having to tell kids of any age what happened to their father or mother is, without a doubt, the hardest thing any mayor ever has to do."
At 11:45 a.m., Figoski's body was removed from the hospital as relatives and nearly 200 cops exited the building and gathered outside a rear exit.
The body was placed in an ambulance as the officers stood at attention. The family got into a separate vehicle.
"Now it's our chance and our opportunity to say thank you to the family and to step in where he would have been," said PBA President Pat Lynch.
The incident that led to the deadly shooting began when the two thugs wearing ski masks pounded on the door to a basement apartment occupied by a 25-year-old tenant.
When the occupant went to investigate, the assailants said they were cops, demanded cash and jewelry and knocked the tenant down with a blow to the head with a firearm.
The suspects swiped an inexpensive watch and $770 in cash.
Police recovered a silver 9mm Ruger semi-automatic from under a parked car near the area where Pride was taken into custody.
The accomplice is still at large.
In 2009, Pride was found guilty of armed robbery in Guilford County, NC and was sentenced to 13 to 16 months. He was released from prison on October 25, 2010, according to law enforcement officials.
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salute to a hero cop and arraignment of murderer here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...Pride.html
RIP Officer Peter Figoski
Lamont Pride, inset, was arrested and found guilty of armed robbery in North Carolina in 2009. He was busted near the shooting scene in Brooklyn today.
NYPost
A decorated NYPD cop was killed this morning after a gun-toting burglar shot him in cold blood inside a Brooklyn apartment building, police said.
Officer Peter Figoski, a 22-year veteran, responded to a “burglary in progress” at 25 Pine Street in Cypress Hills at 2:15 a.m. and was confronted by career criminal Lamont Pride, 27, police said.
Pride and his cohort initially hid from the first responding officers and were attempting to make their escape when Figoski and his partner surprised the thugs, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Without hesitation, Pride allegedly shot Figoski, 47, once in the face and took off on foot.
Meanwhile, Figoski’s partner, Glenn Estrada, 42, was tussling with Pride’s unidentified cohort nearby.
Estrada broke away and chased after Pride, slapping the cuffs on him several blocks away on Chestnut Street and Fulton Street, police said.
“I want to commend Officer Estrada, who had the presence of mind to focus on the man with the gun, and the courage to chase him down and capture him,” said Kelly.
Figoski was taken to Jamaica Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Mayor Bloomberg said he was awoken at 4 a.m. and told about the shooting.
"No one had any expectation [Figoski] would make it," the mayor said.
At a news conference, a somber Bloomberg, who had to notify Figoski's family of the incident, said cop shootings are "the worst part about being mayor."
Bloomberg added, “I also met with Officer Figoski’s former wife Paulette, and two of their daughters Carolyn, 16, and Corrine, 14, here at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, and thanked them on behalf of a deeply grateful New York City. There are two other daughters Christine, 20, and Caitlyn, 18, both who are upstate at college.
“Four daughters. I’m the father of two myself and having to tell kids of any age what happened to their father or mother is, without a doubt, the hardest thing any mayor ever has to do."
At 11:45 a.m., Figoski's body was removed from the hospital as relatives and nearly 200 cops exited the building and gathered outside a rear exit.
The body was placed in an ambulance as the officers stood at attention. The family got into a separate vehicle.
"Now it's our chance and our opportunity to say thank you to the family and to step in where he would have been," said PBA President Pat Lynch.
The incident that led to the deadly shooting began when the two thugs wearing ski masks pounded on the door to a basement apartment occupied by a 25-year-old tenant.
When the occupant went to investigate, the assailants said they were cops, demanded cash and jewelry and knocked the tenant down with a blow to the head with a firearm.
The suspects swiped an inexpensive watch and $770 in cash.
Police recovered a silver 9mm Ruger semi-automatic from under a parked car near the area where Pride was taken into custody.
The accomplice is still at large.
In 2009, Pride was found guilty of armed robbery in Guilford County, NC and was sentenced to 13 to 16 months. He was released from prison on October 25, 2010, according to law enforcement officials.
salute to a hero cop and arraignment of murderer here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...Pride.html