An off-duty New York City police officer fatally shot a man in Washington Heights on Sunday night, police said at a press conference early Monday morning.
It’s the second deadly shooting involving an off-duty NYPD officer in just over 48 hours.
Off-duty NYPD officer fatally shoots man in Washington Heights
The most recent shooting happened just after 9:45 p.m. Sunday on West 173rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
Police said an off-duty NYPD officer was standing outside a residential building when he was approached by two men riding on separate mopeds. One man allegedly got off his moped, asked the off-duty officer whether he knew an individual’s name, then pulled out a firearm…