2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
In what appears to be murder for no apparent reason or reason, a man killed a New York police officer who was sitting in a police van in the Bronx early Wednesday morning in cold blood.
According to the local CBS affiliate, agent Miosotis Familia, 48, was in the passenger seat of the vehicle, which serves as a mobile command unit, when Alexander Bonds approached the window and shot him in the head without a word..
"Based on what we know so far, this is an unprovoked attack on police officers who want to keep this great city safe," said New York Police Chief James O'Neill at a conference release at the hospital where the victim died hours after being shot.
Security videos from the area recorded Bonds leaving a warehouse and shortly after covering his head with the hood of his jacket, then heading to the unit where Familia was, which was assigned to fight gangs in that area. zone. After shooting her in cold blood, shortly after midnight, she fled.
In the recordings of the radio broadcasts after the incident, the desperate cries of the agent's partner are heard asking for help: "My partner has been shot!"
Thanks to their prompt reaction, other officers in the area were able to pursue Bonds, 34, who had served a prison sentence for theft. The suspect confronted them and ended up being shot.
In statements to the press, the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, praised the figure of Family, who had been in the Big Apple police force for 12 years. "He was on duty, serving this city, protecting people, doing what she believed in and doing the job he loved."
She also emphasized the immediate reaction of her colleagues, who after that "surprising and sudden attack" not only came immediately to help her
The family leaves three children, a 20-year-old girl and 12-year-old twins, and also an elderly mother who she cared for. Before joining the police force, she had worked at the Red Cross, studied medicine at Ohio State University, and is currently collaborating with the Association of Dominican Agents of the New York Police Department.
Although the motives for the murder are unknown at the moment, Bonds had posted a video on social media in which he complained about the treatment received in prison and warned the police that "he was not going to play the game any longer," according to the The New York Times.
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