Sgt.G
04-06-2008, 05:16
Hier mal ein Bericht von einem Raubueberfall der gluecklicherweise schief ging!
NEW YORK CITY – The off-duty cop who fatally shot a mugger had opened his Bronx apartment door to find the would-be robber pointing a gun at his wife and 3-year-old daughter, police sources said Sunday.
Officer Nadin Perez screamed, “Drop it! Drop it! I’m a cop!” as he rushed into the hallway to chase handgun-toting robber Carlos Rios in the Bedford Park building Saturday night, witnesses told police.
As Perez, 43, pulled his wife and daughter behind him to shield them, he kept the pistol trained on Rios. When Perez chased Rios down the building’s stairs, a single shot rang out followed closely by a flurry of six others, witnesses said.
Mortally wounded, Rios staggered from the building and collapsed on E. 201st St.
NYPD investigators were not certain yesterday if Rios had managed to unleash a bullet before he was fatally struck, but the shooting appeared to be justified, sources said.
“He saved his wife and child,” a police source said. “You don’t expect to find this at your doorstep, but he protected them, got them behind him.”
Perez’s wife told investigators she was coming home with the couple’s daughter when Rios stepped into the building’s elevator with her and pushed the button for the third floor after watching her do it, sources said.
When she asked Rios whom he was visiting on the third floor, he apologized and then pushed the button for the sixth floor – only to follow her when she exited on three, sources said.
As soon as they stepped off the elevator, Rios pulled a gun, pointed it at the woman and demanded that she open her apartment door, sources said.
“He points the gun at her, trying to force her into the apartment,” said an NYPD source, “and when she doesn’t move fast enough, he points it at the baby.”
Neighbor Peter Girven heard the woman scream, “Ayúdeme!” – “help me” in Spanish – and rushed to his front door’s peephole.
“It looked like a scene from a horror movie,” said Girven, 42, as he watched Perez’s wife clutch their daughter and back away from Rios.
Wearing only his boxer shorts, Perez, a 10-year-veteran of the Police Department, burst from the family’s apartment with his NYPD-issued 9-mm. handgun. After getting his family to safety, he chased Rios down the hallway.
“I heard him say, ‘I’m a policeman, I’m a cop,” said neighbor Ken Ferrera, 63, a special education teacher.
When a bleeding Rios fell on the street, he stashed his own 9-mm. handgun on the wheel well of the parked car that belonged to Perez, police said. A second gun was recovered in the sewer nearby, but it was unclear if that also belonged to Rios, police said.
Rios – who also went by the alias Carlos Valentin and had a previous police record that included an arrest for drug possession – died at Montefiore Medical Center.
Perez, who is assigned to the Midtown South Precinct, was given a Breathalyzer test at the scene of the shooting, as NYPD regulations require. He passed the test, sources said.
NEW YORK CITY – The off-duty cop who fatally shot a mugger had opened his Bronx apartment door to find the would-be robber pointing a gun at his wife and 3-year-old daughter, police sources said Sunday.
Officer Nadin Perez screamed, “Drop it! Drop it! I’m a cop!” as he rushed into the hallway to chase handgun-toting robber Carlos Rios in the Bedford Park building Saturday night, witnesses told police.
As Perez, 43, pulled his wife and daughter behind him to shield them, he kept the pistol trained on Rios. When Perez chased Rios down the building’s stairs, a single shot rang out followed closely by a flurry of six others, witnesses said.
Mortally wounded, Rios staggered from the building and collapsed on E. 201st St.
NYPD investigators were not certain yesterday if Rios had managed to unleash a bullet before he was fatally struck, but the shooting appeared to be justified, sources said.
“He saved his wife and child,” a police source said. “You don’t expect to find this at your doorstep, but he protected them, got them behind him.”
Perez’s wife told investigators she was coming home with the couple’s daughter when Rios stepped into the building’s elevator with her and pushed the button for the third floor after watching her do it, sources said.
When she asked Rios whom he was visiting on the third floor, he apologized and then pushed the button for the sixth floor – only to follow her when she exited on three, sources said.
As soon as they stepped off the elevator, Rios pulled a gun, pointed it at the woman and demanded that she open her apartment door, sources said.
“He points the gun at her, trying to force her into the apartment,” said an NYPD source, “and when she doesn’t move fast enough, he points it at the baby.”
Neighbor Peter Girven heard the woman scream, “Ayúdeme!” – “help me” in Spanish – and rushed to his front door’s peephole.
“It looked like a scene from a horror movie,” said Girven, 42, as he watched Perez’s wife clutch their daughter and back away from Rios.
Wearing only his boxer shorts, Perez, a 10-year-veteran of the Police Department, burst from the family’s apartment with his NYPD-issued 9-mm. handgun. After getting his family to safety, he chased Rios down the hallway.
“I heard him say, ‘I’m a policeman, I’m a cop,” said neighbor Ken Ferrera, 63, a special education teacher.
When a bleeding Rios fell on the street, he stashed his own 9-mm. handgun on the wheel well of the parked car that belonged to Perez, police said. A second gun was recovered in the sewer nearby, but it was unclear if that also belonged to Rios, police said.
Rios – who also went by the alias Carlos Valentin and had a previous police record that included an arrest for drug possession – died at Montefiore Medical Center.
Perez, who is assigned to the Midtown South Precinct, was given a Breathalyzer test at the scene of the shooting, as NYPD regulations require. He passed the test, sources said.