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A New York City police detective and four children were among those injured in separate shootings in Brooklyn over the violent July holiday weekend.
New York Police Department Detective Robert Karroll of the Sex Offender Monitoring Unit was shot behind his vest during an encounter with an 18-year-old in Crown Heights early Sunday, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed at a press conference hours later.
Carroll was taken to Kings County Hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. The second officer suffered facial and shoulder injuries during the incident.
The President of the Detective' Endowment Association, Scott Munro, condemned the incident of violence.
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Members of the NYPD's crime scene unit are investigating the scene where an NYPD officer was shot in the vest in the area of Nostrand Avenue and St. John's Place in Brooklyn, New York, United States on 5 July 2026. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“This has to end,” he said at a Sunday morning press conference. “Three weeks ago we had a detective shot – in the same hospital. This has a stop. Our members go out day and night for hours and hours protecting the people of New York City doing the job they are sworn to do and they need to be respected and thank God this detective is going home.”
He sighed deeply “let's plan the funeral today.”
Tisch said officers assigned to the mobile unit were parked in an unmarked police vehicle near Nostrand Avenue and St. Johns Place around 4:14 am ET when a person approached the car.
“Due to the lack of a body-worn camera in this incident, the circumstances of the operation are still unclear,” said Tisch, adding that the shooting happened “rapidly and unexpectedly.”
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The damage caused by the ball is shown on the unmarked NYPD car the officers were sitting in at the scene. The car had bullet holes in the front and back and the passenger window. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu)
The shooting happened hours after four children were injured at Coney Island, where at least eight people were shot.
The victims include two men, two women and four children, aged 14, 12, 7 and 6. All were taken to hospitals. Seven are listed in stable condition, while a 21-year-old woman is in critical condition, police said.
In the incident of shooting the police, Tisch said the police got out of the car and tried to meet the armed suspect before the three officers fired their weapons. The suspect was not hit, he said. The police vehicle sustained bullet damage, including bullet holes in the front and rear and on the passenger side.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch spoke at a news conference Sunday morning after a series of weekend shootings in Brooklyn. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu)
After a foot chase, the suspect was caught in several locations near Rogers Avenue and Union Street. Tisch said he refused to be arrested and refused to be handcuffed before the police pulled out a taser and took him into custody. A SAR 9mm pistol was found.
“I'm relieved that the officer, Detective Robert Karroll, was wearing a bulletproof vest and was not seriously injured as a result,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference, relieved that the “husband and father of three” survived.
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Tisch said the officers were reassigned to the area shortly before midnight as part of the Department's Fourth of July violence reduction program in response to ongoing labor violence.
Detectives were canvassing nearby businesses for surveillance video because there was no body camera video showing the incident.
Reuters contributed to this report.
