Still, the attack recalled the 2014 ambush killings of two New York City officers who were gunned down in their cruiser by a man who had announced online moments before that he was planning to shoot two "pigs" in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York. She apparently had no previous contact with him. Bonds was black Familia was black and Hispanic, her family having come from the Dominican Republic. While tensions have been running high in recent years between police and black people around the country, there was no immediate indication the killing had a racial dimension.
COP AMBUSHED AND KILLED ON FIRST SHIFT SERIES
I'm just sad it was her."Īttorney General Jeff Sessions called the shooting "the latest in a troubling series of attacks on police officers over the past two years." "She gave me good advice, like a mother to a daughter," said Keisha Williams, 31, who said her husband was arrested on a marijuana charge last year. Her policing earned praise even from a woman whose husband she had arrested. "She was the sweetest person you ever want to meet," Ritter said.įamilia worked her entire police career in the Bronx precinct where she was killed while staffing the RV-like command post, stationed to help combat rising crime in the neighbourhood after a triple shooting in March. "She'd give you the shirt off her back," said Tom Ritter, 59, a plumber who lived downstairs from Familia and said she treated his now-22-year-old son like one of her own children. A mother of three who lived with her own mother in the Bronx, she felt a calling to help her community, friends said.
She had been a nurse and medical assistant first, according to her profile on the career site LinkedIn. "For the NYPD, regularly achieving lower and lower crime figures means absolutely nothing when one of our own is brutally shot and killed."Ī 12-year NYPD veteran, the 48-year-old Familia had come to police work later in life than most on a force where the average recruit is 26. "Officer Familia was murdered for her uniform and for the responsibility she embraced," O'Neill said in a message to officers Wednesday night.
Police are investigating what may have prompted Wednesday's shooting, which Police Commissioner James O'Neill described as an officer being "assassinated in an unprovoked attack on cops." She never saw Alexander Bonds coming before he shot her in the head through the passenger-side window, killing her before officers ultimately killed him, police said. NEW YORK - At the start of her midnight shift, Officer Miosotis Familia was in a New York Police Department mobile command post, writing in her notebook, when a gunman strode toward her.
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