![]() He had just completed a training course to become a volunteer chaplain. He was active in his church, Christ Tabernacle in Glendale, and had once studied at a seminary. Rafael Ramos (Decem– December 20, 2014), married and a father of two, resident of Glendale, Queens, had joined the NYPD as a school safety agent, before being promoted to officer in January 2012. Officers killed Official NYPD portraits of Rafael Ramos ( left) and Wenjian Liu ( right), who were killed in a shooting on DecemRafael Ramos Brinsley and the two police officers were taken to Woodhull Hospital, and all were pronounced dead on arrival. After NYPD officers responding to the scene chased him onto the subway, he killed himself with the handgun in the Myrtle–Willoughby Avenues ( G train) subway station, according to police. Two Con Ed workers who witnessed the shooting notified police. He then fired a semiautomatic handgun four times through the open window, striking Ramos and Liu in the head and upper body, killing both officers instantly. ![]() Brinsley approached the passenger window of an NYPD patrol car occupied by Rafael Ramos, 40, and Wenjian Liu, 32, of Brooklyn's 84th Precinct. The second shooting occurred at Myrtle Avenue and Tompkins Avenue, a busy intersection in Brooklyn near the Tompkins Houses. The Myrtle–Willoughby Avenues subway station, where Brinsley killed himself after fatally shooting two NYPD officersīefore Brinsley arrived in Brooklyn by bus, he shot and seriously wounded his 29-year-old ex-girlfriend, Shaneka Nicole Thompson, in the Baltimore suburb of Owings Mills, Maryland, on Saturday morning. Brinsley's motive to kill the NYPD officers was motivated by outrage over the two deaths. The protests also coincided with widespread protests in response to a grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9. The grand jury's decision resulted in widespread protests in New York City and across the nation against police brutality and the lack of accountability for it. The shooting occurred just weeks after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was responsible for the death of Eric Garner on July 17, 2014. Earlier in the day, before he killed Ramos and Liu, Brinsley had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend Shaneka Thompson in Baltimore after initially pointing the gun at his own head. Brinsley then fled into the New York City Subway, where he killed himself. On December 20, 2014, Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley shot and killed Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu - two on-duty New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers - in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Revenge for Eric Garner's and Michael Brown's killings. ![]() Double-homicide by shooting, murder–suicide, attempted uxoricide
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