NEW YORK: Attempt Murder Suspect Shoots at Cops on Traffic Stop

HIGHTECHDUDE · #1 ● 03-27-2024, 01:50 PM

These cops did just about everything wrong, tactically speaking. TBH they are both lucky that the crook was a lousy shot.

ALBANY, (March 26, 2024) — The NY Attorney General's Office has released bodycam footage from an officer involved shooting that occurred on January 3, 2024.

State Police have identified a 35-year-old Albany man as the suspect in a shooting on Hudson Avenue who was later killed in an exchange of gunfire off Exit 15 on the state Thruway.

Albany police first responded after a man was shot around 1 p.m. near Quail Street and put out a bulletin for a white Mercedes the suspected shooter was driving. It was at about 3 p.m. and over 100 miles away — between exits 15 and 15A on I-87 — when troopers Steven J. Missale and Ronald Raymond saw a vehicle matching that description driven by Rakim A. Tillery, State Police said. The troopers said they attempted to stop Tillery in the town of Ramapo in Rockland County. Police said he immediately shot at the troopers, who both returned fire and shot Tillery. A gun was recovered at the scene, officials said.

Tillery was pronounced dead at the scene. Missale and Raymond were sent to Westchester Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries and later released, police said. Both are stationed in Newburgh and patrol the Thruway. Missale is a 23-year veteran of the force while Raymond joined in 2016, according to previous news reports.

Albany police spokeswoman Megan Craft said Thursday the victim in the Hudson Avenue shooting, whose identity has not been released, remains in critical condition at Albany Medical Center Hospital.

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