Had a long rap sheet. This is the ak47 he used to open fire on officers before they shot and killed him. He was armed with a smoke grenade and 100 rounds of ammunition. Police tried everything to get him to surrender. They even flew in his mother from delaware. Instead he chose to fight to the end. N. J. Burkett will have the latest on the firefighters condition. But first, lets get with tim fleischer. Reporter we can show you a much better vantage point, the nypd has allowed us to move a little closer. I will show you, we can move into it and we are right up next to the crime scene. See that house with the green roof . Down in the basement apartment, that is where this suspect was holed up for nearly six hours in this standoff. That large vehicle in front of it, that is known as the bear. That is a heavily Armored Vehicle used by the esu unit. That is what the men worked out of while they worked on this stand off and what they used to protect them when the gunfire began. This standoff
halloween because of the temperature dropping a bit. i want to ask you about the percentage rite now of fdny that has complied. according to before it was announced. fdny has one of the lowest vaccination rates. 59% of its firefighters, and as of wednesday the rate inched up to about 68%. compared to nypd s 80%. why does nypd higher? i don t know the specifics of the numbers. i know that the last statistic we had was our members, the fire officers, their vaccination was 72%. it s increased since then. so we have a little bit of a higher rate in fire officers union. it s inched up because they ve incentivized and gave an ultimatum to our membership and members have had to act without the proper time to make decisions.