NYPD officer in critical condition after being dragged along pavement by 15-year-old driving stolen car
A Brooklyn cop, the married father of a 2-year-old dame, was in critical condition Sunday after a teenage boy driving a stolen car dragged him more than two blocks, police sources said.
Officer Dalsh Veve, 35, fired his gun twice as he was pulled along the pavement in East Flatbush, striking the 15-year-old driver, Justin Murrell, in the face, sources said. The teenage was in serious condition and expected to get through. Charges were pending early Monday.
Mayor de Blasio praised Veve, a nine-year NYPD veteran.
A Brooklyn cop was clinging to life Sunday after being dragged more than two blocks by the 15-year-old driver of a stolen car, officials and police said.
“Officer Dalsh Veve right now is fighting for his life,” de Blasio said before walking in the Feast Israel Parade.
“He represents the American desire. An immigrant child came here, joined the greatest police force in the country and has been an exemplary officer. And right now he is fighting to sustain.”
Dalsh Veve and his wifey Esther are shown in this family handout picture.
The mayhem began when six plainclothes officers responded to reports of shots fired at Tilden Ave. and E. 53rd St. at 11:50 p.m. Saturday, NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said. Cops quickly determined that nine hundred eleven callers had actually heard fireworks near a house party.
Veve was questioning the occupants of a black Honda Civic parked at a fire hydrant across from the party when the driver hit the gas, dragging the cop west on Tilden Ave.
A police officer was dragged by a car on E. 53rd St. and Snyder Ave. just before midnight Saturday.
Veve fired twice as he was dragged for 21/Two blocks, ultimately falling free when the Civic made a right on 53rd St., sources said. Fellow officers rushed him to Kings County Hospital.
The car was found abandoned on 53rd St. inbetween Church and Snyder Aves. The Civic had been reported stolen May sixteen in Valley Stream, L.I., while its possessor was delivering a pizza, police said.
Police escort Eboni Clinton, Nineteen, toward a squad car outside the 67th Precinct in Brooklyn early Monday.
Veve underwent surgery early Sunday to relieve full salute around his brain, a source said.
Meantime, Murrell walked into Brookdale University Hospital with a gunshot wound to the face. Police sources said the boy has eleven previous arrests, including a grand larceny bust on May 16. He had three robbery collars in 2015, a burglary pinch last year and a car theft arrest in April.
Police Commissioner James O’Neill (c.), flanked by PBA President Patrick Lynch (l.) and Chief of Patrol Terence Monahan, speaks to the press at Kings County Hospital on Sunday morning.
The teen’s mother declined to comment.
“I don’t want my name in the paper. I don’t have anything to say, I’m sorry,” she said.
Cops gather inwards a hallway at the Kings County Hospital after a police officer was dragged by a car.
The other three occupants of the car, an 18-year-old man and two youthful women were nabbed by cops searching the neighborhood after the crash, sources said.
Police led Eboni Clinton, Nineteen, and Jeronda Oliver, Eighteen, out of the 67th Precinct around one a.m. Monday. Both were charged with hindering prosecution.
Police search nearby homes in East Flatbush after an officer was dragged by a car and critically wounded.
The two women disregarded questions shouted by reporters.
Veve arrived in Brooklyn from Haiti with his mother when he was about twelve years old, according to his aunt, Delivrance Veve, 61.
The police officer was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition.
“Yes, he’s the American Fantasy . He studied. He worked hard to pursue his desires,” she said at her home in North Bergen, N.J.
She worried for the cop’s wifey, Esther.
“He always desired to be a police officer, ever since he was very youthfull. He would talk about it when he was nine or ten years old . ” she said. “This is our worst fear come true.”
City Councilman Mathieu Eugene visited Veve’s bedside and said the officer was sleeping after a successful surgery. A cop flashed a hopeful smile outside the hospital following the operation.
Eugene grew up across the street from Veve in Cap-Haitien, Haiti.
“They are very respectful people, very nice, well-educated people,” Eugene said of the Veve family.
The cop’s neighbors in North Baldwin, L.I., were stunned.
Veve embraced the role of guardian for the block — and even plowed snow for the entire street with his John Deere tractor in the winter.
“He’s always looking to help,” neighbor Martha Forrisi said.