Jason Rivera, 22, died after a crossfire after responding to a call for help in a Harlem home.
The flags of the government buildings in New York fly this Saturday at half-staff in tribute to the police officer killed on Friday night in the city and who was identified as Jason Rivera, while his partner, identified as Wilbert Mora, continues in critical condition.
Rivera, 22, and Mora, 27, had responded to a call for help from a woman who was in the middle of an argument with her son, who took refuge in the bedroom of the apartment, from where she shot at the agents.
In the exchange of gunfire in a home in the Harlem neighborhood, the policeman died and the aggressor, Lashawn McNeil, with a criminal record and who was initially reported to have died, is also in critical condition, according to the media.
It is the third armed incident with victims that is registered among the Police in a week in which two agents were wounded by bullets in events that occurred on Tuesday and Thursday.
“I lost my fellow officers in the line of duty. I remember my mother’s fear for her children when we went to work every day.New York mayor and former police officer Eric Adams said in a tweet shortly after the incident, who today ordered that the flags of municipal agencies fly at half-staff.
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The violence has not given Adams respite, who took office on January 1.
During his electoral campaign, he promised that his priority would be to combat violence in the streets of this city, where this week a 1-year-old girl was also injured in the face by a stray bullet while she was in a vehicle with her mother.
After the new incident with the policemen, Adams asked the federal government for help to stop arms trafficking to this city, while Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency due to armed violence, in order to speed up the processing of funds allocated for that purpose.
“We must urgently confront the plague of gun violence in our state. Too many lives are being lost and too many New Yorkers live in fear. This is a crisis,” Hochul said as he signed the order, shortly after the shooting that killed the Latino police officer.
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He recalled that in the new state budget that he presented this week he proposed to triple resources to stop the flow of illegal weapons into the state as well as for programs that address the root causes of violence.
“I refuse to allow our cities to fall prey to fear. New Yorkers deserve action from their elected officials, and they will get it.”Hochul said.
In July of last year, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo also decreed a state of emergency due to gun violence, which Hochul, who replaced him in office, later extended until November. (I)
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