On-duty NY officer shot and killed in ‘unprovoked attack’

An on-duty New York City police officer was killed on Wednesday after a man walked up to her police vehicle and began to fire shots through the window, authorities said.

Officer Miosotis Familia, a 12-year veteran assigned to the New York Police Department‘s 46th Precinct’s Anti-Crime unit, was taken to a Bronx area hospital where she later died, according to the NYPD. She was 48-years-old.

The department said the officer was struck in the head in an “unprovoked attack” while sitting in a marked police command van – which had been parked in the area since March because of increased gang activity.

The NYPD said the suspect was shot and killed by responding officers and that there were “no outstanding suspects.”

An innocent bystander was also shot and hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, according to the police department. The officer’s partner, who was also in the vehicle, was not injured in the attack, the department said.

The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Alexander Bonds of New York City, pulled a gun on the responding officers and led them on a block-long foot chase before he was killed, police said, noting that a silver revolver was recovered at the scene.

Source: On-duty NY officer shot and killed in ‘unprovoked attack’ – ABC News