NYPD Cop Gunned Down in Harlem Shootout

http://nypost.com/2015/10/20/nypd-cop-shot-in-east-harlem/

A cop was fatally shot in the head while chasing a gunman amid a shootout in East Harlem on Tuesday night.

Randolph Holder, 33, a five-year veteran of the force who was assigned to the Housing unit, responded to a 911 call of gunfire between two rival gangs at 420 E. 102nd St. at about 9 p.m., according to law enforcement sources.

When officers arrived on the scene, the warring groups split up and scattered, with one suspect robbing a bicycle at gunpoint.

That gunman led cops on a chase up First Avenue and then over a footbridge at 120th Street and the FDR Drive.

The suspect made it over to the East River side of the bridge and shot at the cops, striking Holder in the forehead.

Holder’s partner returned fire, wounding the gunman in the leg and buttocks. The suspect was apprehended at East 124th Street.

Police sources identified the shooting suspect as Tyrone Howard, 30. He has not been charged yet.

“I heard so many gunshots,” said a witness, Angelique Martinez, 47. “It sounded like there was a shootout outside my building. It’s really scary.”

Indeed numerous shots can be heard in the background of a 911 call Tuesday night reporting the shootout, according to audio posted by former NYPD cop John Cardillo, now a radio host in West Palm Beach, Fla.

The wounded officer died at Harlem Hospital at about 10:30 p.m.

“Tonight, he did what every other officer in the New York City Police Department does,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said at the hospital. “When the call comes, he ran toward danger. That’s the last time he will respond to that call.”
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Holder was a resident of the Rockaways who immigrated from Guyana with his father.

The dad, also named Randolph, was taken to the hospital by helicopter from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.

“His father, in his time of grief, sought to console the officers of PSA 5,” Bratton said, referring to the Public Service Area where Holder was assigned.

“He’s strong enough and brave enough to go in and address them and try to comfort them.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio said at the hospital, “We are all mourning tonight. The whole city is mourning.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the officer’s family, who are experiencing unimaginable pain.

“He gave the last full measure of his devotion on behalf of the city he loved.”

Police found an ammunition magazine at the scene of the shooting, and a revolver near the scene of the gang shootout.

The gunman was recovering at Cornell Medical Center. Three other suspects were apprehended.

Officers were searching the East River for the killer’s weapon, which they believe he threw into the water after shooting Holder.

“There’s so much violence in this area,” said Martinez, the witness. “When I heard that an (*)officer was shot, I had to come outside to see for myself.”

The FDR near 120th Street was briefly shut to traffic as (*)officers scoured the crime scene.

In recent months, the NYPD has been wracked by the shooting deaths of cops.

Holder is the fourth NYPD cop killed in the line of duty in the past 10 months — since the tragic Christmastime double murder of Detectives Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.

The partners were shot and killed on Dec. 20, 2014, by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a cop-hating gunman angry over the racially tinged deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, who died at the hands of police.

Brinsley killed Ramos and Liu as they sat in their parked squad car in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Minutes later, Brinsley killed himself on a subway platform.

On May 2, Officer Brian Moore, 25, was mortally wounded in Queens, taking a bullet to the head while trying to question Demetrius Blackwell, 35, who had been suspiciously fidgeting with something in his belt.



I wonder how long it will take Bill (*)(*)(*)(*)blasio to tell us how safe he has made NYC?

I'm sure (*)(*)(*)(*)blasio is extremely sorry the cop who was shot was black.

 

NY is becoming a zoo again, all the good work Rudy and Bloomberg did undone by this leftish filth piece of (*)(*)(*)(*) Deblasio. I am sorry for offending (*)(*)(*)(*) by comparing it to Deblasio.

 

I totally agree.

 

Mayor Sandinista really has done some serious damage to the city.

 

Liberals wont give a (*)(*)(*)(*) about this man because he was a LEGAL immigrant who proudly served his new country instead of illegally invading and leeching off of it.

 

Unfortunate. I thought most of Harlem was gentrified now. Guess not.

 

And the #BLM movement celebrated lol

One of their own, in uniform, killed in the streets, and those dumbasses cheer it on.

At least we know its not a racial thing now. They're just out to celebrate the death of police officers.

 

Was the guy killed a member of the BLM?

 

^^^ DFQ ^^^

 

Why?

Was one of the gangs the BLM?

 

Are they really cheering?

 

RIP, Officer Randolph Holder. You were the type of black life that mattered.



Not Michael Brown, and not the thugs who attack cops and get shot for it. And the scum at BLM who are a racist group at best.

 

Let's hope NY gets the death penalty before his trial.

 

Obama bears some responsibility for this. He has created a divisive climate in the US. that has pitted blacks against whites, blacks against the police , Dems vs Republicans, etc. it started in 2009 when police thought his friend Henry Gates was a burglar because neighbors reported that someone was breaking into a house. Obama said, ""I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts – what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that he Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home,"

Then he blamed the police for "murdering" Michael Brown. He has invited Black Lives Matter into the White House. He has made many questionable comments concerning race, but only if the altercation is between a Black and white. I can't wait for him to go. We will be picking up the pieces of the US for many years to come because of him. Thanks, Obama. Another cop is murdered, but you don't even care.

 

They were cheering outside the hospital the cop was dying in.

Cause they're trash. Every single one of them.

 

I totally agree as well. Welcome to Obama leadership. He cop bashed for 8 years and now these young brainwashed lower life forms think its ok to steal and shoot cops.

 

They are that blatant?

 

I can only imagine how the MSM is reporting that. I'm sure they'll use terms such as pent up frustration, years of abuse and distrust, and so on. <Rule 2>

 

well, at least we are still preserving the 2d Amendment

 

source for ''proof'' of celebrations ??

 

Kind of pathetic how conservatives are trying to exploit this officer's death by making strawman arguments about left that simply are not supported by any facts. White race-baiters have no dignity.

 

Funny how they always claim to be the least prejudiced of anyone in society. They say liberals are the ones who are most prejudiced but they never come up with any proof of their ridiculous claims.


Let's see what "proof" they have the BLM is cheering and celebrating the death of a black cop on the streets of NYC.

 

My, my, my how you managed to make conservatives the bad guys in this. We've already seen BLM buttheads chanting "what do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now" And now you're itching to see more.

 

To be honest, I would rather just hear some actual concrete insight on why NYC has gone from no deaths to so many in the ranks of the police. What has the mayor allegedly done that has caused this to happen? What can be done to address the issue, etc. Unfortunately the BLM movement has run itself off the tracks, but the issues that they once had the potential to be a voice for certainly are still there. I don't shy away from the left's bad policies, while perhaps well-intended, do enable gang violence, perpetuate poverty, etc., but certainly getting mired down in racial finger-pointing does not get us anywhere in addressing even the racial bias issues, let alone the other ones. There is nothing about this story that sounds like race may have been a factor, but in other stories perhaps it could have been.

 

Mayor Bill de Blasio is not to blame. Gun fatalities happen in various cities. It's the guns; not the Mayor of a city that is to blame.