Jamal Funes, suspect in shooting of 2 cops, charged, police say
Jamal Funes, who used to use the name Frederick Funes, is seen in an undated photo provided by the New York State Department of Corrections. Two police officers were shot in a confrontation with Funes, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Credit: AP
The man accused of a shootout with officers in Brooklyn over the weekend was charged with first-degree attempted murder on Sunday, police said.
Jamal Funes, 34, of Egg Harbor, New Jersey, was charged with a slew of other offenses, including assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Officers William Reddin of Lynbook and Andrew Yurkiw of Wantagh were wounded during the early morning shootout Saturday.
According to NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis, ballistic tests completed Sunday showed that Yurkiw was struck in the vest by a round fired from the suspect’s gun.
Reddin had bullet fragments in his hip, and further tests were required to determine their origin. Investigators have been exploring whether either officer was hit by gunfire from other cops.
There is no indication at this time of a terrorist connection to the incident, Davis said.
Reddin remained in Kings County Hospital Center on Sunday. Yurkiw has been released.
On Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that when he visited Reddin in the hospital, he talked about getting an illegal gun off the streets the day before the shooting.
“He had gotten a gun off the guns of this community and he was very proud of that,” de Blasio said at an unrelated event at a church in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Officers spotted Funes traveling the wrong way up the street near the Lexington Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard, and he then rammed his car into a marked police car, according to police.
During an exchange of gunfire, the two officers, both plainclothes and assigned to anti-crime, were hit, police said. A .357 caliber revolver was found in the front seat of Funes’ car, with five spent shell casings, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said during a news conference on Saturday.
Funes was shot and taken to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition. It was not immediately clear when Funes would be arraigned and attorney information was not immediately available for him.
— With Anthony M. DeStefano and Emily Ngo
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