During a physical confrontation with an armed suspect in New York City, a veteran police officer was shot and killed just after midnight Sunday night.
Brian Mulkeen, a 33-year-old New York Police Department Officer and member of the Bronx Borough Anti-Crime Unit in the 47th Precinct, was investigating gang activity at the Edenwald Houses, a public housing complex in the city’s Bronx borough, accompanied by two other officers. Several recent shootings have taken place in the area, according to police.
