An NYPD officer was injured after a barricaded man, identified as Edwin Rivera, opened fire on officers executing a search warrant on the Lower East Side. Rivera was also injured in the shootout and is expected to survive.
Police on Tuesday shot and injured a man they said had barricaded himself in an apartment on the Lower East Side and shot several times at officers, injuring one, according to NYPD officials.
Officials said the incident began around 5 a.m., when officers attempted to execute a search warrant for a man with guns in the apartment, which is located on Madison Street at the New York City Housing Authority’s Vladeck Houses. Rivera, who was out on parole for a charge of resisting arrest, fired several rounds at officers when they approached the apartment, striking one in his bulletproof vest, Tisch said.
Around 8:15 a.m., said Tisch, officers lost contact with Rivera and tried to move the couch away from the door to gain entry into the apartment. At that point, Rivera allegedly opened fire again, striking the detective in his left shoulder. Police returned fire and hit Rivera several times on his left side, but he was expected to survive, officials said.
“The Manhattan only charged him with resisting arrest,” Tisch said. “Sadly and predictably, and although he was on active parole, he was released the very next day.”Speaking at the press conference, Mayor Eric Adams said he had visited the detective at Bellevue Hospital and found him in good spirits.
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