NYPD Commissioner says officers shot in Brooklyn were “assassinated”

New York City’s police commissioner says the two officers who were ambushed and killed in their cruiser in Brooklyn were “assassinated.”

Police Commisssioner William Bratton spoke Saturday at a news conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

He identified the two officers killed as Raphael Ramos and Wenjin Liu.

Bratton says the suspect shot his ex-girlfriend earlier Saturday in Baltimore.

The police officers were killed in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood.

Authorities say the gunman ran inside a subway station and fatally shot himself in the head.

The attack comes at a time when New York police are being heavily criticized for their tactics following the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

There is no word if the shootings today are in anyway related.

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