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Suffolk Police Officer Fatally Shoots Best Buy Larceny Suspect During Carjack Try, Cops Say

A Suffolk County police officer Sunday night shot and killed a Best Buy larceny suspect who was trying to escape in a stolen car with two children inside, police said.

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The shooting in Bay Shore came after the suspect, Denzel Brown, 21, of Amityville, was involved in a possible theft at the electronics store, at 1851 W. Sunrise Hwy. at about 7:46 p.m., police said.

Brown was hiding in the parking lot and tried to run from an officer who attempted to stop him with a stun gun, "which was ineffective," police said.
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The suspect fled into the neighborhood and was able to get into a couple's running car with two children, ages 4 and 6, inside, police said. He began to drive away -- with only the children inside, police said.

According to a news release, the officer then "opened the car door and attempted to remove Brown" from the car.

"The officer is ordering the suspect out of the car," police spokesman Lt. Kevin Beyrer said, according to News 12 Long Island. "He's refusing. He's in the driver's seat. The car's running. The officer fires one shot. The officer is then able to open the driver's side door and then struggles inside the car in the driver's seat with the suspect."

That's when the officer tried to use the stun gun on the suspect again, Beyrer said.

When it was ineffective a second time, "the officer then fires a second shot at the suspect."

Beyrer said assisting officers then responded.

Brown, 21, of 109 Maple Dr., was taken to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore where he died during surgery, police said.

Police could not immediately say exactly what Brown allegedly stole or did inside the store, but officers responded to a 911 call about a "possible theft" from store personnel.

The suspect was "hiding outside the store" when police arrived, and as one officer approached him, he "fled through the parking lot and the officer chased him on foot."

That's when the officer first attempted to use the stun gun, police said.

Then the suspect "attempted to open the doors of both moving and parked vehicles that were in the parking lot and along Nevada Avenue," the release said.

The suspect then attempted to steal the "running car from a couple while two children" were in the backseat.

"He opens the rear door, where the two young children are sitting," Beyrer said. "He climbs across the two young children," to get into the driver's seat. "The woman panics, exits the vehicle, and she's screaming that there's kids in the car."

The man was not yet in the car, police said.

The confrontation between the officer and suspect ensued, and it ended in the fatal shooting, police said.

On Nevada Avenue in Bay Shore, where the carjacking and fatal shooting occurred, neighbors said they were shocked.

The victims weren't home Monday morning, two neighbors said. Nobody answered the door at the home where neighbors said the family lives.

Marletta Stevenson, who lives across the street, said she was watching bull riding on television when she heard a gunshot.

"I thought it was a loud firecracker; I didn't think anything of it," said Stevenson, 75. "Then detectives knocked on the door. I said, 'Yeah, I heard a shot.'"

Stevenson said she was surprised that it happened in her neighborhood.

"It's just tragic. It's tragic," Stevenson said. "He lost his life for what? There's people mourning him, and it's sad."

The investigation is continuing.

[rabbit]

Good shoot... ALL Is Well.

[pdcn63]

rabbit i hate your guts and usually wish nothing but the worst for you because you are alittle bit ch but i agree with u

[mrwizard]

The Media loves to tout them as the answer to Police involved shootings but this is the second time this month a taser has failed miserably. Thank God the only one who suffered this time was the bad guy. Nice job Officer.

P.S. I like you Rabbit, but in a manly way

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Cops: Shooting Appears Justified

An unarmed Amityville man was shot and killed by a Suffolk police officer in a Bay Shore neighborhood after she battled him for control of a vehicle -- containing two children -- that he had tried to carjack, authorities said Monday.

Denzel I. Brown, 21, died during surgery at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore after the officer, 34, shot him in the abdomen Sunday night as they fought inside the slow-moving vehicle, which had dragged the nine-year veteran repeatedly along the ground, officials said.

The investigation into the shooting "is active and ongoing," said Suffolk Chief of Department James Burke at a news conference Monday at police headquarters in Yaphank.
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"The preliminary investigation has indicated this shooting is justified," Burke said.

Investigators have video surveillance from an adjacent home that shows part of the encounter between the officer and Brown, Burke said, adding that it backs the officer's story. He said the surveillance would not be released publicly because it is considered evidence.

The officer, assigned to the Third Precinct, was not hurt but was treated at a hospital for "trauma" and released, Burke said. The children were also uninjured.

"It's everyone's worst nightmare," Burke said. "Someone's going to drive away with your kids."

Suffolk Police Commissioner Edward Webber called the officer's actions heroic.

"At great personal risk, the officer confronted the suspect in a running vehicle and effectively stopped the threat to the children and to the public," Webber said.

The harrowing battle between the officer and Brown, with children in the backseat, started minutes earlier as a routine 911 call reporting a theft at a Best Buy store at 1851 W. Sunrise Hwy. The officer, whom the department declined to name, responded about 7:45 p.m. to a report that Brown stole two pairs of headphones, Burke said.

She arrived and a witness directed her to Brown hiding between storage containers outside a nearby Toys R Us store, Burke said.

He ran. She chased him. Brown tried to steal an unoccupied car in the parking lot, and the officer used her Taser on him, Burke said. "Unfortunately only one prong struck him, rendering the Taser ineffective," he said.

Brown ran across Brentwood Road, Burke said. He tried to carjack a sedan traveling west on Nevada Avenue.

"He was not able to enter that vehicle, but instead was knocked to the ground as the sedan fled," Burke said.

Brown ran to the front passenger side of an idling vehicle in the driveway of a home, police said. A man -- the uncle of the two boys, 4 and 6 had exited the vehicle and gone inside the house, police said. His girlfriend was in the driver's seat. Police did not identify the adults or the children.

Brown jumped in the backseat where the children were, Burke said. The woman "screamed for him to get out of the car," Burke said, but Brown climbed into the front seat and she jumped out.

The officer approached the driver's side and "repeatedly ordered" Brown to get out, Burke said.

"Despite multiple commands, on the part of the officer, the perpetrator put the car in reverse," Burke said. "Fearing that he was about to kidnap the children, the officer fired one shot from her .40-caliber Glock service weapon at close range through the driver's window in an attempt to prevent and terminate that kidnapping," Burke said. Police do not believe that bullet struck Brown, Burke said.

The officer opened the driver's side door and "tried to put the car in park and remove the keys from the ignition," Burke said. Brown "put the car in reverse and dragged the officer along the ground," Burke said.

The officer and Brown fought, police said, and the officer put the car in park and turned it off, but couldn't remove the key. Brown restarted the car, put it in reverse, and dragged the officer, Burke said. She used her Taser to "drive-stun" Brown, by applying the shock directly onto his neck.

"At this point, the officer was in fear of her own life and realized the continued threat to the children," so she fired her service weapon a second time, striking Brown in the abdomen at point-blank range, Burke said.

Asked about the officer's decision to fire her service weapon with the two boys inside the car, Burke said the children were sitting low in the backseat and the officer had the "wherewithal" to fire the first shot into the window of the front seat and she fired the second shot at Brown at point-blank range.

"She was thinking about those kids when she exercised those weapons," Burke said. "In this case, this officer has just done an outstanding and exemplary job. In my 30 years of being a police officer . . . this really ranks up there as one of the most heroic actions that I've seen taken on the part of a police officer."

She has received four department recognitions and was named "cop of the month" in her precinct several years ago, officials said. She was not placed on any modified duty and will likely return to work on active duty after a few previously scheduled days off, police said. She will undergo a mandatory medical evaluation before returning to work, said Chief Kevin Fallon, a department spokesman.

Burke said the department planned to release the officer's name at a later date, but declined to Monday because Brown may have had "connections to gangs."

Brown was arrested three times since 2014 for possession of heroin, possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell, and second-degree robbery, but the charges were pending, said district attorney spokesman Robert Clifford.

An employee reached at the Best Buy store Monday said the employee who reported the alleged theft was back at work but was crying and not available to comment.

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Awesome job. The FIRST priority was complete......the cop gets to go home at the end of the tour. God Bless & Stay Safe.

[rabbit]

Mar 23, 2015 16:22:54 GMT -5 pdcn63 said:

rabbit i hate your guts and usually wish nothing but the worst for you because you are alittle bit ch but i agree with u

Really??? "a little bitch"... That's nice, I don't even know you, but You can go fvck YOURSELF... DOUCHEBAG.