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The shooting policeman who was wounded out of the hospital ends up in Rikers Island this time

A detective who was part of the team who was able to carry out a search for a raid on a raid before dawn on a public housing project in the Lower East Side was shot into the left shoulder and hurried to the Bellevue Hospital.

The policemen summarized a suspect that was identified as Edwin Rivera (35) at the scene after a three -hour patting situation ended in a flash of firearm. He was charged with him for four charges for murder, two attacks and a count of a criminal property of a weapon. This time he was rejected without custody and landed on Rikers Island.

The wounded officer was identified as a detective Terry Avent. A police spokesman said that he was later released from Bellevue on the day of the shooting and would probably make a complete recovery.

“We are grateful for his security, but we are also angry,” said Adams at the press conference in Bellevue after visiting Avent and his wife and son. “We are angry because the shooter is a violent, repeated perpetrator with previous arms arrest, which was on probation due to narcotics and sales,” said Adams.

Tisch also blown up the system that made it possible for Rivera to be outside the street on the day of the last incident. “I want to make it very clear today [Feb. 19] is not the only time that Mr. Rivera was arrested in his current probation. Previously, on November 6, 2024, he was arrested for criminal property of stolen property and resistance to the arrest. The Manhattan there only accused him of resistance to the arrest and so sad and predictably, and although he was on an active probation, he was released the next day. “

On the morning of the shootout, Rivera fired five to six rounds to the police officers when they tried to attack the apartment in the 325 Madison St. in downtown Manhattan from 5:09 a.m.

The police initially did not return a fire, said Tisch at a press conference because they believed that a woman with Rivera could be in a possible hostage situation in the apartment. But that turned out to be unfounded.

The suspect finally barricaded himself into the apartment and the police brought in a hostage of hostage and contacted Facetime, but he finally broke off. The police tried to step back into the apartment around 8:18 amam, and when they brought a couch away from a door, the suspect opened the fire and injured the detective avent esu in the left shoulder. Police officers returned fire and the suspect was met several times on the left. Both the officer and the suspect were brought to Bellevue.

The NYPD leader of detectives Joseph Kenny said at the press conference: “The perpetrator is currently not in a serious condition. He will probably not die. “In fact, like the wounded officer, he was later released on the day of the shootout.

The public prosecutor charged Rivera a few days later, and this time he was referred back without deposit and is located on Rikers Island and waited and waited and waited for the process. The efforts to achieve his lawyer Michelle Hauser were not successful at the press period.

Table said Rivera was “a career criminal, convicted criminals with several priors for gun ownership and narcotics. He was on probation four times and is actually on probation. “

Adams said about the wounded officer: “He is in a good mood and just wants to go back to work.”

When Straus News arrived at the scene at around 10 a.m. at around 10 a.m., the yellow crime scene was the Plaza outside the 384 Madison St., one of the 20 buildings in the Nycha project, which was known as Vladeck houses and was born in Minsk The activist who had emigrated to New York was named and founded the newspaper The Jewish Forward.

The mood among the officers on site this morning was serious, but personable when the news spread that the wounded officer was doing well. The head of the detective Kenny said that the wounded officer was not expected to be operated on, and he was then released from Bellevue.