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		</div><p>A gunman walked into a police station in the Bronx and started shooting, wounding an officer just hours after he shot another one in a patrol van.</p>
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<p>The same gunman was responsible for the back-to-back shootings, New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a press conference.</p>
<p>He said the gunman walked into the headquarters of the 41st police precinct shortly before 8am, firing off bullets.</p>
<blockquote><p>This is a premeditated assassination attempt</p></blockquote>
<p>A male officer was shot once in the upper left arm. That officer returned fire but did not hit the suspect.</p>
<p>“For the second time in less than 12 hours, NYPD officers have been targeted specifically,” Mr Shea said.</p>
<p>He described the suspect as a “coward” and said the gunman laid down once he ran out of bullets.</p>
<p>The suspect, whose name has not been released, was taken into custody.</p>
<p>He has a lengthy rap sheet and was paroled from prison in 2017 after an attempted murder conviction, Mr Shea said.</p>
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<p><em>“This is not a crime gone bad,”</em> he said.</p>
<p><em>“This is not a liquor store robbery interrupted that a tragedy erupts from. This is a premeditated assassination attempt.”</em></p>
<p>The shooting inside the precinct headquarters came just hours after another attack in the same section of the Bronx, involving the same suspect.</p>
<p>Two officers narrowly escaped with their lives when a gunman fired into their patrol van just before 8.30pm on Saturday.</p>
<p>The officer at the wheel of the van was grazed in the chin and neck but he avoided serious injury. He was expected to released from the hospital on Sunday.</p>
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<p>Mr Shea said the attack “should outrage all New Yorkers”.</p>
<p><em>“He is lucky to be alive,”</em> Mr Shea said. <em>“He is expected to make a full recovery and it is a miracle.”</em></p>
<p>New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a tweet on Sunday that he was “horrified by the multiple attacks” on police.</p>
<p><em>“NY’s law enforcement officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,”</em> he said.</p>
<p><em>“These attacks are heinous.”</em></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This morning a gunman walked into the 41st Precinct in the Bronx and shot an officer. I’m relieved to report the officer is stable, and the gunman is in custody.</p>
<p>&mdash; Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1226520269604306951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, condemned the back-to-back attacks.</p>
<p><em>“This was an attempt to assassinate police officers,”</em> he told the press conference.</p>
<p><em>“We need to use that word.”</em></p>
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<p>President Donald Trump immediately used the shootings to assail New York’s Democratic mayor and governor.</p>
<p>The two uniformed officers, partners for eight years and friends since middle school, were sitting in their van with emergency lights activated when a man approached them and engaged them in conversation, Mr Shea said.</p>
<p>The man asked the officers for directions, then pulled out a gun “without provocation,” the commissioner said.</p>
<p>The man fired multiple shots, striking the officer behind the wheel.</p>
<p>Mr Shea said the officer’s carotid artery narrowly avoided injury.</p>
<p>Neither officer returned fire. The officer’s partner drove him to a hospital nearby.</p>
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<p>Mr Shea called both officers “heroic” for their composure and said their long association made for “an amazing story.”</p>
<p>Security video that appeared to capture Saturday night’s shooting shows the van driving quickly away as a man appeared to point something at the fleeing vehicle.</p>
<p>The officers had been stationed in the neighbourhood because of recent drug activity and violence, Mr Shea said.</p>
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