Incident

1-16-2024 New York Brooklyn 2-1

Location

January 16, 2024

1969 Bergen St
Brooklyn, New York

Participants

  • Type: Victim
  • Participant Characteristics:
    • Law Enforcement
  • Name: Officer
  • Age Group: Adult 18+
  • Gender: Male
  • Status: Injured
  • Type: Victim
  • Participant Characteristics:
    • Law Enforcement
  • Name: Officer
  • Age Group: Adult 18+
  • Gender: Male
  • Status: Injured
  • Type: Subject-Suspect
  • Name: Melvin Butler
  • Age: 39
  • Age Group: Adult 18+
  • Gender: Male
  • Status: Injured

Incident Characteristics

  • Shot - Wounded/Injured
  • Officer Involved Incident
  • Officer Involved Shooting - Officer shot
  • Officer Involved Shooting - subject/suspect/perpetrator shot
  • Criminal act with stolen gun
  • Guns stolen from law enforcement

Notes

2 NYPD officers shot, 1 to hand, 1 to leg while arresting DV suspect who had assaulted mother. Suspect grabbed one officers gun during takedown and fired; suspect also shot

Guns Involved

1 gun involved.

  • Type: Handgun

District

Congressional District: 8
State Senate District: 25
State House District: 55