Prosecutor: Lamont Pride intentionally shot officer Figoski
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Court officers escort Lamont Pride, center, into a courtroom during his trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court. (Jan. 28, 2013).
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Lamont Pride was so intent on escape after the gunpoint robbery of a Brooklyn drug dealer that he intentionally shot NYPD Officer Peter Figoski in the face rather than risk arrest when the two big men faced each other on a narrow stairway, a prosecutor told jurors at Pride's murder trial Wednesday.
"It was a deliberate, intentional shot in order to make his escape," prosecutor Kenneth Taub...
