New York police officer killed in Harlem shooting

A New York Police Department officer was killed and another critically wounded Friday night while responding to a call from a woman about her son, who “suddenly, without warning” shot at them from the back room of a Harlem apartment. Mayor Eric Adams spoke about the need to crack down on illegal guns.

Three officers responded to the ground floor apartment on 135th Street. They spoke to the mother in a front room, and then two officers went to a back room where the son was, and shots rang out. McNeil swung open a bedroom door and opened fire at the officers, striking them.

As McNeil tried to flee, a third officer who’d stayed with McNeil’s mother in the front of the apartment shot at McNeil and wounded him in the head and arm. The building is on a block between two iconic Harlem avenues: Malcolm X Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.