The fatal shooting of a New York Police Department officer has left a community devastated as police try to piece together a motive for the murder. The shooter, who had posted anti-police sentiments online, suffered from a mental illness, according to his girlfriend and family.
Officer Miosotis Familia, 48, was parked in a police vehicle in the Bronx just after midnight on Wednesday when Alexander Bonds fired a single fatal shot. Familia was struck in the head and later died at the hospital. Bonds was shot and killed by police about a block away from where he shot Familia.
According to the New York Times, Familia was the first female officer to be killed in the line of duty since 9/11, as well as the third female officer in the history of the NYPD to be killed in a combat encounter.
