2 officers wounded in attacks targeting New York police

Two New York City officers were wounded in attacks targeting police in the Bronx, officials said Sunday. 

A lieutenant was shot in the arm Sunday morning by a man who walked into the 41st precinct station, New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a news conference Sunday. 

Officials are “confident” the suspect in custody is the same man who shot an officer Saturday night, Shea said.

“It is only by the grace of God and heroic actions of those inside the building that took him into custody, that we are not talking about police officers murdered inside a New York City Police precinct,” Shea said. 

An officer was struck in the chin and neck in a shooting Saturday while uniformed in a marked police car, Shea said. 

Both officers are expected to “fully recover,” Shea said. 

The 9-millimeter gun recovered from the Sunday shooting suspect will be tested to see if it matches the gun used in Saturday’s shooting, Shea said. 

Shea said the suspect “immediately laid down, but only after he ran out of bullets.” 

Videos footage from inside the precinct show the actions of the alleged shooting, Shea said. Videos of the attack were shared on social media. 

Third video with expanded footage of shooting incident at Bronx police precinct pic.twitter.com/PGajelJbpc

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“These officers handled such a horrific situation with heroism with extraordinary skill thank god that each and every one of them will be okay,” Mayor Bill De Blasio said at the Sunday news conference. 

He said the attempt to assassinate police officers is “an attack on all of us.” 

“It is an attack on Democratic society, a decent society, and it’s intolerable and we will not accept it and we will fight back with everything we have,” the mayor said.