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markpkessinger

(8,392 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:12 PM Sep 2012

The NYPD does it again -- do we all feel safer now?

Ray Kelly is saying the officer's gun went off "accidentally."

[font size = 4]Reynaldo Cuevas Shot And Killed By NYPD After Escaping Armed Robbers At Bronx Bodega [/font]

THE BRONX — A worker in a Bronx bodega was shot and killed by police as he escaped an armed robbery in the store, police sources and witnesses said.

Reynaldo Cuevas, 20, and his uncle were in Natalie Grocery, at 1229 Franklin Avenue, when armed robbers burst in as the store was closing at 2 a.m., police sources said.

The victims were held hostage, but managed to escape just as police were arriving, the victim's cousin told the Daily News.

As they sprinted from the store, Cuevas was shot in the torso by a cop, police sources and a witness said.

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Full article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07/reynaldo-cuevas-shot-killed-by-nypd-bronx-bodega-robbery_n_1864303.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=601729,b=facebook

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