Posted on 12/09/2012 1:43:21 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -A man with a record of 39 arrests was shot and killed by police detectives in Queens overnight, after pulling what police thought was a gun, but turned out to be a compressed air pistol.
Police on Sunday afternoon continued to investigate the shooting that left the 42-year-old man dead. The suspect killed by police had not been identified as of 3 p.m., pending family notification.
Around 10:45 p.m. Saturday at Gates and Seneca avenues in the Ridgewood section of Queens, two male plainclothes NYPD detectives – ages 48 and 42 and both nine-year department veterans – had just had arrested a 33-year-old suspect in a buy-and-bust drug sting operation.
At that point, they were confronted by the suspect, who pulled what looked like a Glock 19 semi-automatic handgun, police said. It was actually a Walther CP99 compressed air pistol, but was designed to look like a Glock, police said.
The drug dealer who was arrested initially said the suspect with the air pistol “appeared out of nowhere,” and watched as the man pulled the weapon at detectives.
When he did so, the dealer said he told the man with the gun, “They’re cops, you idiot!”
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I reacted to your comment about them being licensed in AU. ON my first reading I thought you might be saying that is a sound idea, but I obviously got it wrong.
And even if it doesnt kill you, it can WOUND you seriously. (Youre gonna put your eye out with that thing!!!)
39 arrests and not identified...
Been in shops that sell different things. Pellet guns locked up inside counter. You can see but can’t touch.
Apparently with good reason.
A dozen New York cops have been shot this year, compared with nine during the previous three years, the Daily News reported Sunday.
The number of shootings involving police officers in which there was return fire from an assailant doubled to 18 so far in 2012, from nine last year.
Fifty-six bullets were fired at New York police this year, compared with 23 in 2011, the newspaper reported.
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