"I Need a Bus! I Need a Bus! Shots Fired!"
Today and Everyday...
They Clean Up the Messes Others Make*, and Help Keep Us All Safer.
Try to Imagine a World Without Them... as His Family Will.
A New York Police Department officer with more than six years of service was shot dead in the Bronx early Sunday, authorities said. Brian Mulkeen, a 33-year-old member of The Bronx Anti-Crime Unit, was investigating gang activity, including recent shootings with two other officers at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, NYPD said.-------------------
The officers got out of their vehicle to question a man, who then fled, and the officers gave chase. As the officers tried to apprehend the suspect, a violent struggle on the ground began, NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said.
Mulkeen had served on the NYPD for over six and a half years and lived in Yorktown Heights with his girlfriend, who is also an NYPD officer.
"As we stand here this morning, a young man with a bright future who courageously patrolled some of New York City's toughest streets has tragically lost his life," Monahan said. "Brian was a great cop dedicated to keeping this city safe."
"There is no worse a moment in our profession than this," NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill tweeted. "Please keep Brian's family & colleagues in your thoughts."
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Sunday's killing comes more than a day after a gunman shot dead Texas Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, an observant Sikh who gained national attention years ago when he got permission to wear a turban as part of his Harris County Sheriff's Office uniform.
Stay on your feet, never let them put you on the ground, and ALWAYS... fight back!
~An Old Irish Proverb.
RIP Officer Mulkeen. Our hearts weep today.
* Two men, who said they were playing chess and dominoes when the gunfire began, said there were four groups of Bloods and Crips in the complex that fought over territory and drugs. A feud between two of the Bloods sects, the Stones and the Hounds, over sales of $5 bags of marijuana, had culminated in a shooting on Thursday, according to one of the men, who identified himself only as Al because he feared for his safety.
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“Brian Mulkeen went out into the world to do exactly what we expect of our alumni — be a man for others — and he was slain in service to the local community,” said the Rev. Joseph M. McShane, Fordham’s president.
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Andrew Mcgann, who lived across the street from Mulkeen in Yorktown Heights, said he wondered why Officer Mulkeen was drawn to a job “with all the things that are going on in New York City, the hours he had to work, the travel down to the city.” So he asked.
Officer Mulkeen, Mr. Mcgann continued, simply replied: “‘Because that’s what I want to do.’”
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