NEW YORK—An off-duty Police Officer Feris Jones was getting her hair done in Brooklyn, when a 19-year-old burst into the salon with a gun, demanding wallets, On Saturday, Oct. 23.
Jones announced she was a police officer. The gunman, Winston Cox, then rattled off four shots at her, fortunately hitting no one. Jones managed to successfully shoot Cox, who was then arrested.
On Monday, City Council members and city Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly presented a proclamation to Jones for foiling the gunpoint robbery.
"To describe Officer Jones as cool under fire would be an understatement. She had the presence of mind to make certain the women behind her were on the floor and out of the line of fire. She knew to do that before announcing that she was a police officer,” said Kelly at a ceremony televised in October, where Jones was promoted to the position of detective. “In other words, she knew the gunman might shoot, and when he did, she was ready for him, demonstrating stunning marksmanship in the process."
Jones had never fired her service weapon in the line of duty before the incident.
She said that while the robbery was happening the main thing on her mind was "we all have to get out of there in one piece," according to the Daily News.
