An NYPD officer was fatally shot during a Monday car stop in Queens, Mayor Adams said, calling the incident “a senseless act of violence.”
“We lost one of our sons today and it is extremely painful,” Adams said at a press conference. “It’s extremely painful.”
Uniformed officer Jonathan Diller and his partner pulled Lindy Jones, 41, and Guy Rivera, 34, over near the corner of Mott Ave. and Smith Place in Far Rockaway just before 5:50 p.m., cops and sources said.
The men were in a gray Kia SUV and were illegally parked in a bus stop, according to police.
Witness Deon Peters said he saw two people, including the officer, on the ground,
'He was moving, he was saying 'I'm hit, I'm hit!' Giving location and all that,' Peters told the NY Post, 'Like he was crying.'
Diller managed to grab the gun from his killer after the other officer returned fire and hit the gunman in the back.
Radio intercepts recorded colleagues frantically calling for an ambulance moments later.
'We need a bus here ASAP!' one screamed, 'We have an officer shot!'
The gunman was in a passenger seat when he fired through the window at the officer.
He was shot in the back as police returned fire before both injured men were taken to the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens where only the gunman was expected to survive.
The 41-year-old driver of the car, named by sources as Lindy Jones, was arrested and a firearm was recovered at the scene.
'The line-of-duty murder of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller is a tragedy for the NYPD and every New Yorker he so bravely protected,' tweeted former police commissioner Bill Bratton.
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