new york city. one young member of the nypd killed and another clinging to his life after responding to a domestic dispute call. stephanie gosk joins us with the latest. what in the world happened? reporter: this is a terrible incident, steph. gun violence in the city is up 16%. governor hochul and mayor adams have said they promise quick action. the mayor calling this latest an attack on the entire city. this weekend, police departments on edge after officers were shot in multiple cities. an officer got shot, male took off. reporter: houston police grieving one of their own after a traffic stop turned deadly. in d.c., police responded to a man acting suspiciously and opened fire. one officer sustained nonlife-threatening injuries. all of this as new york is now a city in mourning. it hurts my heart. it really does. reporter: hundreds line is the streets as the body of 22-year-old officer jason rivera was escorted from the medical examiner s office.
nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk reports. reporter: this weekend police departments on edge after office ofs were shot in multiple cities. an offices was shot, male took off. reporter: houston police grieving one of their own after a traffic stop turned deadly. in d.c. police responded to a man acting suspiciously and he opened fire. one officer sustained nonlife threatening injuries, ul of this as new york is a city in mourning. it hurts my life. reporter: hundreds lining the street as the body of 22-year-old officer jason rivera was escorted from the medical examiner s office. his partner, 27-year-old wilber mora is in critical condition. both were investigating a domestic disturbance when they were shot. police say 47-year-old sean mcneil filed on the police officers in his mower s apartment. police recovered an extended glock pistol that holds you have
22-year-old rookie jason rivera was killed his partner, wilbert mora, gravely wounded when they responded to a domestic disturbance call police say lashawn mcneil opened fire using an illegal handgun with an extended magazine capable of holding 40 rounds hundreds gathered to honor rivera on sunday it is not just in new york in houston a deputy was shot and killed during a traffic stop. in d.c. police were responding to a man acting suspiciously when he started shooting, injuring one officer. have you seen violence against police officers at this level in your career i have not. i have worked 36 years in law enforcement, and i can tell you it is the worse i have seen it. reporter: last year over 300 police officers were shot nationwide, 63 killed. we see all of this rhetoric, all of these attacks, these dehumanizing of law enforcement. it is really eroding the respect for our profession. reporter: the violence against police comes as major american cities struggle with violent
a rookie police officer was killed over the weekend and another is right now fighting for his life. now new york city s new mayor eric adams is expected to announce a new plan to make the city safe again. adams, a former nypd officer himself said he will reinstate a plain clothes police unit to go after illegal guns. nbc s stephanie gosk has more. reporter: gun violence here in new york city is up 16% compared to the same time last year. governor hochul and mayor adams have promised swift action. mayor adams has called this latest police killing an attack on the whole city. this weekend police departments on edge after officers were shot in multiple cities. an officer got shot, male took off. houston police grieving one of their own after a traffic stop turned deadly. in d.c. police responded to a man acting suspiciously and he opened fire. one officer sustained non-life
police were aiming at an assault suspect who had been attacking women at the store. cnn s kim law picks up the story. reporter: this video is from the perspective of the los angeles police department. it was released so that people in the community could understand what responding officers were arriving to. there were reports of multiple reports of a possible shooting happening inside a store, so the l.a.p.d. released 911 call, store surveillance video and body cam footage video. we want to warn you the video you are about to see may be upsetting. in the store surveillance video you see a man acting erratically and randomly attacking one of the women. he strikes her multiple times, pulling her by her hair and then strikes her until she is bloody. officers enter the store. they see the injured woman as well as the attacker, and then they fired.