Earlier today I was writing an article about Jaden Ramos, the 13-year-old son of Rafael Ramos, one of the two NYPD officers shot to death in their cruiser on Saturday, who had posted a heartbreaking goodbye to his father on Facebook.
As the NYPD News reported this weekend, “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.
What struck me the most interesting about the article in The Daily Mail was the inclusion of a photo of the gun found next to Brinsley’s body on the subway platform – a seemingly clear match to the gun in the photograph allegedly posted by him on Instagram.
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If this turns out to be true, it makes the Instagram posts all the more grim.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of Police Officer Wenjian Liu and Police Officer Rafael Ramos. May they RIP.
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