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3 NYPD cops wounded in 2 shootouts; 1 suspect killed

NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said plainclothes officers

Photo credit: DCPI | NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said plainclothes officers Lukasz Kozicki, left, and Michael Levay, center, were on patrol in Brooklyn Jan. 4 when shot by a man with a 9-millimeter handgun. Off-duty officer Juan Pichardo was shot in the thigh at his family's Bronx car dealership the same night, police said.

Three NYPD officers were wounded and a gunman was killed Thursday night in two separate shootings within an hour, one in a Brooklyn subway station and the other during a foiled robbery in the Bronx, police said.

Only two officers were hospitalized, none with life-threatening injuries, police officials said.

Just before 7:30 p.m., two on-duty transit officers saw a rider violating rules...

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