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The suspect’s name has yet to be released. No officers were hit in the exchange of gunfire.
Cops fatally shot a man who tried to flee after firing on them in the Bronx late Thursday, authorities said.
Two housing cops responding to reports of shots near the Castle Hill Houses approached a 26-year-old suspect near a playground on Randall Ave. about 11 p.m., police said.
The man fired a .45-caliber gun at the officers, and they shot back as the suspect began to run, police said. The gunman fled across Randall Ave. into another section of the development, authorities said.
Four more cops caught up with the shooter at Randall Ave. and Olmstead Ave., unleashing a fusillade that left him dead, police said.
Police did not immediately release the suspect’s name.
Sean Simpson, 28, said he was driving his friend’s SUV on Randall Ave. when an unmarked police car and a patrol car came speeding up from opposite directions of the street.
“I saw a woman cop get out of the one cop car. She had her gun out,” Simpson said. “I heard about three shots, and I got down. Then I heard more than six shots.”
Simpson said a bullet hit a street sign directly behind him and went through the windshield of a parked Pontiac sedan in front of him.
“There was a guy standing in the street. I couldn’t really see him well. He was just a figure. … I saw him fall,” Simpson said.
No police officers were hit during the exchange, authorities said. The six officers who discharged their weapons were treated for psychological trauma at Montefiore Medical Center’s Weiler Hospital. The investigation was continuing early Friday.
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