FBI terrorism investigators have joined New York police looking into possible extremist ties of a man who shot two city police officers early Saturday in Brooklyn, law enforcement officials said.
The two officers suffered non-life threatening injuries when they were struck around 3:20 a.m. in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood, according to New York Police Commissioner William Bratton. They were treated at Brookyln’s Kings County Hospital.
The 34-year-old man who shot them — identified by Bratton as Jamal Funes — was wounded as police returned fire, though the nature and severity of his injuries was not immediately known.
“This morning is a reminder of the important and dangerous and crucial work that our police officers do, and the way they put their lives on the line for us every single day,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters Saturday, before the suspect’s possible extremist ties became known. “And that is why this city is kept safe, because these men and women step up for us.”
