NYPD officer shot, gunman killed after armed barricaded standoff in Brooklyn: police

A 15-year veteran of the New York City Police Department (NYPD)’s Emergency Service Unit (ESU) was shot in the leg Friday morning during an hours-long standoff with an armed barricaded man in Brooklyn, authorities said. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the incident unfolded at about 5:45 a.m. local time when officers from the 79th precinct responded to a 911 call reporting multiple shots fired inside a two-story home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The gunman, identified as Lamin Simmons, 48, alleged