Jaden Ramos, the 13-year-old son of Rafael Ramos, one of the two NYPD officers shot to death in their cruiser on Saturday, has posted a heartbreaking goodbye to his father on Facebook.
In the first message, Ramos writes “This is the worst day of my life.”
Then seven minutes later he continued in an additional message:
Today I had to say bye to my father. He was their [sic] for me everyday of my life, he was the best father I could ask for. It’s horrible that someone gets shot dead just for being a police officer. Everyone says they hate cops but they are the people that they call for help. I will always love you and I will never forget you. RIP Dad.
According to the NYPD News, “While sitting in a marked NYPD police car, in full uniform, both [Police Officer Wenjian Liu and Police Officer Rafael Ramos] were ambushed and murdered in front of 98 Tompkins Avenue in the Bedford Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York City.”
According to witness statements, the suspect, who has been identified as 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, walked up to the police car. He took a shooting stance on the passenger side and fired his weapon several times through the front passenger window striking both officers in the head.
Officer Liu and Officer Ramos never had the opportunity to draw their weapons. They may never have actually seen their assailant, their murderer.
Brinsley then fled to a nearby subway station where he “proceeded down the stairs onto the westbound subway platform,” where he took his own life with a gunshot to the head. According to NYPD News, “a silver semi-automatic Taurus firearm was recovered” next to his body.
The Daily Mail reports that law enforcement officials are investigating Brinsley’s Instagram account (now suspended) after two menacing posts were found, one showing a pistol resembling the one released by the NYPD of the weapon found next to Brinkley’s body on the subway platform.
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