Two New York plainclothes police officers were in stable condition after they were shot Monday night while responding to a report of a robbery, and authorities on Tuesday continued a massive manhunt for two suspects in a city still reeling from a deadly police ambush about two weeks ago.
The officers were identified as Andrew Dossi, 30, who had wounds to the back and an arm, and Aliro Pellerano, 38, shot in the chest and arm, according to Steve Clark, a spokesman for St. Barnabas Hospital, the Bronx facility where the officers were taken. Both officers were expected to remain hospitalized, he told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.
Police said at least one of the suspects may have been wounded during the confrontation. They said they were investigating a man who walked into a Manhattan hospital with a gunshot wound to his back, but it was unclear if he was connected to the Bronx confrontation.
The latest shooting came as the city remained tense from the fatal ambush of two officers killed in Brooklyn on Dec. 20. That incident has set off a firestorm of criticism by police who allege Mayor Bill de Blasio's comments about race and policing created an atmosphere that led to the attack on police.
Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot to death while sitting in their patrol car by a man who vowed online to kill "pigs." The man opened fire then ran into a subway where he shot himself to death.
Ramos was buried Dec. 27 and Liu was buried Sunday. At both events, many police officers turned their backs on the mayor to show their displeasure.
On Monday night De Blasio was quick to praise the wounded officers.
"They went above and beyond the call to protect their fellow New Yorkers," he said at a news conference at the hospital. "Thank God the officers are doing well and will recover."
Unlike the Brooklyn case, the latest shooting was not an ambush, police said. Also different is that the officers on Monday were in plainclothes while the pair shot in Brooklyn were in uniform.
According to police, the latest shooting took place around 10:30 p.m. Monday near East 184th Street in the Tremont section of the Bronx. The officers were coming off their shift when they and three other police officers responded to a report of a grocery store robbery.
Police Commissioner William Bratton at the news conference said the officers, part of an anti-crime unit, were in a car when they spotted two possible suspects in the robbery — one outside a Chinese restaurant and another inside it.
As the officers approached, one suspect went inside a business on Tiebout Avenue while the other stayed outside on the street, Bratton said. When the officers walked toward the suspect outside, the other suspect who was inside came out and started firing at the officers, who fired back.
The two suspects then ran one block east toward Marion Avenue, where they carjacked a white Camaro and later abandoned it near east 188th Street and Park Avenue, Bratton said. Investigators also recovered a revolver there.
The New York Police Department released video surveillance from the robbery and a photo of the recovered gun, describing the two suspects as Latino men between the ages of 25 to 30 years old wearing dark clothing. One suspect had a close-cropped full beard and another could be wounded, Bratton said.
Police were continuing to review video footage from the robbery and shooting locations, he added.
Haller reported from New York, Muskal from Los Angeles. Times staff writer Nicole Charky in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Copyright © 2015, Los Angeles Times8:15 a.m.: This post was updated throughout with additional details of Monday's shooting.
This story was originally published at 5:18 a.m.
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