The couple then started running down the stairs after the shooting, but Gurley only made it to the fifth floor. The officers then retreated and Liang radioed in to say that there had been an accidental shooting, sources said. Liang, who along with this partner had been part of an increased police presence in the Pink Houses because of high crime rates in the area, fired a single shot that hit Gurley in the chest, police said. "They didn't present themselves or nothing and shot him. "As soon as he came in, the police opened the eighth-floor staircase," Butler told DNAinfo New York. Butler entered first and Gurley followed right behind, she said. Gurley and his girlfriend, 27-year-old Melissa Butler, had tried to take the elevator but opted for the stairs when it didn't come, she said. ![]() when they reached an eighth-floor landing - where the lights had been out for "possibly days," Bratton said.Īt the same time, 28-year-old Gurley, the father of a two-year-old, was entering the stairwell from the floor below them and started them, sources and witnesses said. Liang, 27, and his partner were doing a top-to-bottom patrol in the stairwell of 2724 Linden Blvd., near Eldert Lane, about 11:15 p.m. ![]() Officer Peter Liang, who had been working in the field since graduating the police academy in January, had his flashlight and gun out when the weapon "accidentally discharged," hitting Akai Gurley who was "a total innocent," NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said. Crown Heights, Prospect Heights & Prospect-Lefferts GardensĮAST NEW YORK - A rookie police officer fatally shot an unarmed man late Thursday in a "pitch black" Pink Houses stairwell as his girlfriend, whom he had been visiting, watched in horror, officials and a witness said. ![]()
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