NYPD detective, children shot in separate Brooklyn shootings over holiday weekend

A New York City police detective and four children were among those wounded in separate Brooklyn shootings over a violent Fourth of July holiday weekend. New York Police Department Detective Robert Karroll of the Sex Offender Monitoring Unit was shot in the back of his ballistic vest during an encounter with an armed 18-year-old in Crown Heights early Sunday morning, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed at a news conference hours later. Karroll was taken to Kings County Hospital and is expe