In a chaotic overnight incident in Queens, two police officers were shot, and a suspect was wounded, according to authorities.
The officers were investigating a series of robberies involving mopeds and scooters in East Elmhurst when they attempted to stop a person riding a moped the wrong way near 23rd Avenue and 82nd Street. The suspect fled on foot.
The officers pursued him for several blocks, and during the chase, the suspect fired at them, NYPD officials reported. One officer was struck in his bulletproof vest, while the other was hit in the leg.
Both officers were transported to a hospital and are expected to be released later Monday.
The suspect, identified as a 19-year-old Bernardo Castro Mata, who resides at a nearby migrant shelter, was shot in the right ankle. He was taken into custody and is receiving treatment at a hospital, where he is in stable condition. Sources say he is Venezuelan, and crossed the border at “Eagle Pass”.
A firearm was recovered at the scene.
Investigators revealed that the 19-year-old has no prior arrests in New York City but is a suspect in several robbery patterns in Queens. Police are currently investigating over 80 robbery patterns involving scooters and mopeds citywide, a significant increase from last year when there were no such cases.
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Can’t be true. Alejandro Mayorkas testified under oath to Congress THAT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER IS SECURE!
President Biden was in favor of a bill written by Republicans and negotiated with Democrats in the Senate that would have put the toughest controls on immigration in decades. The Republican senators backed out of the deal because Trump wants to keep immigration as an issue during the election. He wants need stories like this one for his campaign. Don’t fall for it.
Also, there is no evidence that immigrants are more likely than citizens to commit crimes.
Let people decide who is at fault without editorializing.
Of course the regulation of guns is not the issue according to the above responses.
Behold, the abuse of the benevolence of a Nation.
In days not so long ago, immigrants (legal) entered into this Nation of ours to be part of, and to start anew, to contribute and give back to build up the community.
Nowadays, immigrants (illegal) enter into this Nation of ours to steal, kill and destroy that what was established in days not so long ago.
Behold, the demise of a benevolent Nation.
Anonimity86, that is not true. The bill had no Republican support because it was a terrible bill that would absolutely not have controlled the invasion; on the contrary, it would have officially authorized millions of invaders a year, and there was no guarantee at all that the excess above that would be deported. That’s worse than the current situation, so of course the Republicans rejected it.
And yes, it’s obvious that illegal immigrants by definition have a propensity to break the law, because the very fact that they illegally infiltrated the country proves that. So why would they not commit more crimes once they’re here?
Amil Zola, no, “regulation of guns” (i.e. restricting a fundamental human right) is not the issue. This criminal, like almost all criminals, ignored all the current laws to obtain his gun, so obviously if there were even more laws he would ignore those too.