A New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer was shot in the back early Sunday after an armed teenager allegedly opened fire on an unmarked police car in Crown Heights, authorities said.
The incident unfolded at approximately 04:10 a.m. near the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and St. Johns Place. Detective Robert Karroll, a married father of three assigned to the NYPD s*x offender monitoring unit, survived the attack because his ballistic vest absorbed the round. An 18-year-old male suspect is in custody following a brief foot pursuit.
Karoll and three fellow officers had just completed a gruelling 12-hour security detail for the Sail 4th 250 operation in Lower Manhattan before being reassigned to a violence-reduction initiative in Brooklyn. The team was sitting inside an unmarked Kia SUV when the armed suspect approached the car, prompting the officers to exit and attempt to engage him…