BAMF of the CENTURY (Cop Nabs Robbers After Being Shot)

[Flagg]

NBCNEWS.COM

With bullet in chest, N.Y. cop chases after robbers, kills one, authorities say

By Shimon Prokupecz and Brynn Gingras, NBCNewYork.com

An off-duty NYPD officer chased after a trio of robbery suspects in the Bronx, N.Y., after he was shot in the chest by one of them, authorities say. The officer then fatally shot one of the suspects.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Officer Ivan Marcano, 27, was sitting in the passenger seat of his car on Harrison Avenue around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday when his girlfriend saw two men robbing a third.

She told Marcano, who got out of the car, pulled out his gun and shield and identified himself as a police officer, Kelly said.

"As soon as he did, one of the suspects fired, striking Officer Marcano in the chest,'' Kelly said Wednesday evening at a news conference with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the Bronx hospital where the officer was taken.

The wounded Marcano got back into the vehicle with his girlfriend behind the wheel. She took off to seek medical attention when their car became held up at a red light behind several vehicles, Kelly said. She honked at the cars; the one in front of her, a white Mustang, turned out to be the suspects' getaway vehicle. It jerked forward, hitting a livery cab and then a parked car before going onto the sidewalk where it came to a stop.

'Remarkable display of marksmanship'
Three men got out of the Mustang and started running on foot. Marcano got out of his car, taking cover some distance away. Holding his left hand over his wound, with his gun in his right hand, he approached the men and fired one shot, Kelly said.

He then moved to another location and fired again.

"In a remarkable display of marksmanship and cool under fire, Officer Marcano fired, striking one of the suspects in the head,'' Kelly said.

The man died at the scene. The other men ran off in different directions.

Marcano followed one of the men, and came across an ambulance, which got him to Bronx Lebanon Hospital, Kelly said.

A gun was recovered at the scene.

"There's police standing on every corner, all day and every day," said neighbor Crystal Lopez. "So for something like this to happen in police presence is scary."

The group COP SHOT has posted a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrests and convictions of the two suspects on the loose.

Marcano, who joined the force in 2007 and was assigned to Transit District 12, is expected to be alright.

He is the 12th NYPD officer to be shot in eight separate incidents so far this year, according to Kelly, and the second shooting of a police officer this week. On Tuesday, Nassau County Officer Arthur Lopez was killed after getting shot in what had started out as a traffic stop near the Belmont Park racetrack.

We get so many asshat cop stories I figured we were due for a badass cop story.

[AniThyng]

He didn't nab any of them, he shot one in the head while he was fleeing. I'm not sure this counts as unambiguously heroic

[Sephirius]

He didn't nab any of them, he shot one in the head while he was fleeing. I'm not sure this counts as unambiguously heroic

Still badass.

[General Zod]

On the other hand what would have happened if the robber missed and hit the guy's girlfriend? Frankly he's incredibly lucky. Three against one just isn't good odds no matter if he's a cop.

[SirNitram]

I'm afraid BAMF of the Century is already Malala Yousafarzai.

[Captain Seafort]

I'm afraid BAMF of the Century is already Malala Yousafarzai.

I disagree - BAMFness and having a lot of bottle are not synonyms.

[The Duchess of Zeon]

He didn't know they were armed until he was shot, and then they were trying to get out of there when they ran into the fleeing suspects purely by accident, at which point there were so many people at risk from their shooting and ramming cars that he wasn't really endangering his girlfriend anymore... And quickly got them away from her, at that. So I think he did pretty much everything he could at the time, particularly since he was wounded.

[Flagg]

I'm afraid BAMF of the Century is already Malala Yousafarzai.

You can't be a BAMF of the century when you're the BAMF of the millenium.

[SirNitram]

I'm afraid BAMF of the Century is already Malala Yousafarzai.

You can't be a BAMF of the century when you're the BAMF of the millenium.

Conceded. The entry for BAMF-C can now be considered.

[Slacker]

I saw somewhere on the news before Sandy that the guy was being promoted to Detective, so good for him.