The manhunt continues for a suspect wanted in the shooting of a New York City police sergeant working with an anti-gang unit in Queens on Wednesday night.
Police recovered a .09-mm gun at the scene and had a man who showed up a hospital with a gunshot graze wound in custody. But they later determined that man was not the shooter, and so the search continues. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly identified 24-year old John Thomas as the suspect wanted for questioning in the shooting. He is believed to be the gunman and is considered armed and dangerous.
Police have pegged Thomas as the shooter because his fingerprint was on the ammo clip pulled from the gun thought to be the weapon used in the shooting. And police have a set of keys that weree dropped at the scene, traced to an apartment in a Queens housing project where Thomas appears to live. Mail inside that apartment was addressed to the suspect.
Sergeant Craig Bier, a 15-year veteran of the NYPD, is in stable condition at Jamaica Hospital. He was shot around 10:40 p.m. on Union Hall Street in Jamaica.
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Why do you have a picture of a person who commits crime? We should be careful of what our eyes see.
You mean 9mm gun not .09-mm gun
.09-mm gun? What does it shoot, human hairs? (It should be 9 mm.)