A 22-year-old veteran of the NYPD named Peter Figoski was shot and killed after responding to a robbery in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn Monday morning.
Figoski, who took a bullet in the left cheek at close range, was shot as he stood at the bottom of a staircase leading from the street to a basement apartment at 25 Pine St. in Cypress Hills.
According to the New York Daily News:
Figoski was part of the back-up team of officers who responded after the building owner called 911 to report a burglary in progress in the basement about 215 a.m.
The nightmare unfolded after the owner, who lives on the first and second floors of the building, heard two burglars pounding on the basement door where a 25-year-old tenant lives, and then entering, police said.
“The tenant, an employee of a nearby bodega, said that there were two men, a male Hispanic and a male black who was wearing a ski mask,” Kelly said in a statement. “They initially claimed to be police officers, the tenant said. They then demanded money and jewelry.
They knocked the tenant down, and one of the men struck him in the head with a firearm.”
The first two officers on the scene began to interview the robbery victim and his neighbor about the incident, unaware that the two criminals were cowering in a side room after failing to make a quick getaway.
Police recovered a black ski mask, along with a silver 9-mm. Ruger semi-automatic handgun under a parked car with 10 bullets still in the magazine.
Figoski was rushed to Jamaica Hospital where he later died. The accomplice who got away is still being sought. Our thoughts and prayers are with Figoski’s family as they cope in this time of tragedy.
SOURCE: NYDN
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Officer Peter Figoski was shot and killed after responding to a robbery in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn Monday morning.
