A 33-year-old NYPD officer was shot in the head while chasing a gunman in East Harlem Tuesday night, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said. The officer, identified as Randolph Holder, died later at Harlem Hospital.
Bratton said Holder was a native of Guyana, and Mayor Bill de Blasio said from the hospital "this whole city is in mourning." Holder was assigned to the Housing Bureau and covered three precincts across the Upper East Side and Harlem, The New York Times reports, checking for illegal activity in stairways, halls, and on roofs. Area activists say around this time of year, the neighborhood sees more violence because of escalating turf wars between rival crews from housing complexes. "This is when crews of kids start robbing and stabbing each other," Rev. Dr. Vernon Williams told the Times.
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