Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrongly tried to link the shooting of New York City police officers over the weekend to the National Rifle Association and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s lack of support for “common-sense” gun safety measures.
New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea identified 45-year-old Robert Williams as the suspect in two shootings, one on Saturday night when an officer was shot in the neck in his vehicle, The Washington Post reported.
The other incident took place Sunday morning when Williams allegedly walked into a Bronx precinct police headquarters and opened fire with a 9 mm handgun, striking one police officer in the arm.
Both officers are expected to make a full recovery from their injuries.
At a news conference on Sunday, Shea said, “the coward from this morning’s shooting is in police custody.”
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“He has a lengthy violent criminal history,” the commissioner continued. “He was paroled in 2017 for an incident [in 2002] in which an individual in the Bronx was shot, a subsequent carjacking of a female, and then a crash of a car where he engaged in a gunfight with members of the New York City Police Department.”
Williams had served over a decade in prison for attempted murder, according to Shea.
WATCH LIVE as @NYPDShea and @NYCMayor provide an update about the NYPD lieutenant who was shot in the Bronx earlier this morning.https://t.co/VUwZNZCcJu
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) February 9, 2020
“At this time, we are confident that he is the same person who attempted to assassinate our police officers last night,” the commissioner said.