1. Officers say Baltimore resident Brinsely, 28, traveled to New York, walked up to the officers patrol car and, without explanation nor provocation, opened fire and “assassinating” the officers, the NYPD commissioner termed it, leaving officer Wenjian Liu and Rafeal Ramos dead on the scene and their families without fathers and sons.
Brinsley later went up on a crowded Subway station on Marcy Avenue and shot himself mortally in the head. Police later recovered a silver handgun from the scene, NBC New York states.