The gunman who murdered a New York City police officer on July 5 had been previously arrested for assaulting another officer with brass knuckles, local media reported.
Alexander Bonds, 34, ambushed Officer Miosotis Familia, 48, on July 5 and shot her in the head at around 12:30 a.m. But that was only his latest of multiple crimes. Bonds was killed by police.
In 2001, he was arrested for allegedly using brass knuckles to attack a police officer with four other assailants, The New York Post learned.
He was also arrested for drug possession and in 2004 spent eight months in prison for selling drugs.
In 2005, he was again arrested, this time for armed robbery, and sentenced to eight years in prison. He was paroled in 2013.
“He is scary! He looks crazy!” said Aaliyah Merino, 15, who lives across the street from Bonds’s home in the Bronx. “I never talk to him but he talks to me. He always asks if I will get with one of his friends.”
