More charges for Port Washington teen in cop shooting

A teenager from Port Washington accused of wounding an NYPD officer in a shootout Sunday night was hit with more charges stemming from the case, officials said Tuesday.

In addition to charges of attempted murder in the second degree, Elijah Foster-Bey is being accused in a criminal complaint with aggravated assault on a police officer and criminal possession of a weapon, according to a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney's office.

Police officials said the .32 caliber revolver the suspect used was made in Germany, but that there is no serial number on it, something that is making a trace of the weapon more difficult.

Officials said Foster-Bey 17, shot and wounded anti-crime officer Ricardo Ramirez, 29, of Islip, after the officer and his partners, who were on patrol, stopped the teenager while he was riding a bicycle in East New York.

According to police, Foster-Bey ran away from the officers and then while on the third-floor stairway of a building at 454 Bradford St. started shooting, wounding Ramirez twice in his upper right leg and damaging the femoral artery. A third round struck Ramirez's protective vest. The officers fired back 11 times, wounding Foster-Bey in his leg.

According to investigators, Foster-Bey said after he was arrested that he ran away from the officers because he was carrying a weapon.

Both Ramirez, a four-year veteran of the force, and Foster-Bey were recovering from their wounds at Kings County Medical Center and Brookdale University Hospital Center respectively, said police.

Because Foster-Bey was still in hospital, it was unclear Tuesday when he would be arraigned on the complaint, said the spokesman for the Brooklyn prosecutors. If convicted of the most serious charge of attempted murder, Foster-Bey could face a maximum penalty of 25 years to life in prison.

Police said that Foster-Bey at some point became estranged from his family on Long Island and appeared to have been living recently with an uncle around the corner from Bradford Street in Brooklyn.

Ramirez and his partners were on patrol in the area because of a recent spate of robberies and shootings in the vicinity, according to investigators.