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Posted by Gold_12th on Wed Feb 26 22:14:00 2014 A rookie cop - just two months after graduating from the Police Academy - was shot in both legs when he and his partner pulled a gun-toting farebeater from a city bus.Officer James Li, 26, and his partner Randy Chow, 30, were on routine patrol in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, when they spotted two men enter the back door of a B46 bus without paying. The cops boarded the bus, which was southbound on Utica Ave, around 5 p.m. and removed both suspects. That’s when all hell broke loose. One of the men, identified by cops as Rashaun Robinson, took off running. Robinson, 28, whirled toward the officers, whipped out a 45-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and squeezed off three shots. Li, who fired five times, was hit once in each leg and fell to the ground on Empire Blvd. inside a White Castle parking lot. “(There were) a lot of shots — 15, maybe 20,” said witness Jimmy Zitis, 50. “The cop went down. He was...face up and bleeding. He was in a lot of pain. He wasn’t talking too much.” Chow, who let off two shots, wasn’t hit. Two women, off-duty EMTs Khadija Hall and Shaun Alexander, raced to help the wounded cop. Chow radioed for backup. Witnesses directed pursuing cops toward Robinson, who ran west along Lefferts Ave. and then south on Schenectady Ave. Then he dipped down an alley and slipped into a building. Robinson, who has six city arrests on his record and a drug warrant from Pennsylvania, was busted on the fifth floor without more shots being fired. Cops found the menacing weapon on him and Chow identified the perp as the gunman who shot his partner. “This was just a great piece of police work on the part of the initiating officers, as well as the pursuing officers and the apprehension of this suspect with a loaded firearm who showed no compunction whatsoever about turning and firing three times at the officers,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said. “So a dangerous felon now off the street, another firearm off the street, all as a result of very good police work by two rookie police officers who I’m pleased to have as members of the New York City Police Department.” Bratton and Mayor de Blasio were two of the first two visit Li at Kings County Hospital. He’s the first cop shot in the line of duty since July 4 and is expected to make a full recovery. “Commissioner Bratton and I had the honor of visiting some heroes today in their hospital rooms,” de Blasio said. “I have to tell you that Officer Li and Officer Chow really did everything we could conceivably have asked of them. They did everything a good cop does and they've only been on the job for a few months. And yet they responded like seasoned veterans, and it's something we as New Yorkers can be very, very proud proud of." Chow was taken to the same hospital for observation. A third officer, who fell and cut her chin while chasing Robinson, was also treated at Kings County Hospital. Li and Chow entered the Police Academy in July and graduated in December. They were on a foot post, as part of Operation Impact - where cops flood high-crime areas with rookie cops. One of their duties was to keep a look out for farebeaters on city buses, Bratton said. The shooting took place several blocks from the 2005 stabbing death of off-duty Police Officer Vincent Schiavarelli. The cop was breaking up a robbery at a Dunkin Donuts on Empire Blvd. His murderer, Shron Killings, fled to Virginia, but was ultimately apprehended. It also comes on the 26th anniversary of the assassination of Police Officer Eddie Byrne, who was shot dead inside his police car at the corner of 107th Ave. and Inwood St. in Jamaica, Queens as he guarded the home of a brave informant who had given cops information on crack dealers. Charges against Robinson, whose raps sheet contains mostly drug busts, were pending Wednesday night. http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/theshack/2014/02/cop-shot-in-both-legs-after-confronting-pistol-packing-farebeater |
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