Hammer weilding maniac shot by cops in Midtown

I'm glad this guy was found.

NYPD cops shoot hammer-wielding suspect near Penn Station they say was wanted in Union Square, other attacks

A madman who assaulted three women and a man in Manhattan with a hammer was shot twice in Midtown Wednesday after violently swinging the tool at a female cop, police said.

The gunfire erupted at the busy intersection of W. 37th St. and Eighth Ave. about 10 a.m. after two cops saw him and thought he might be the hammer-attack suspect whose photo was released a day earlier.

NYPD Chief of Manhattan Detectives William Aubry said Officers Geraldo Casaigne, 36, and Lauren O'Roarke, followed the suspect, but he turned around and started swinging the hammer. Casaigne, an Iraq War vet, fired four rounds to protect his partner, cops said.

"When he turned around he pulled out the hammer and violently started swinging the hammer at the female officer," Aubry said.

"As he's swinging the female officer is back-tracking into the middle of 37th and Eighth," he said. "Her partner, the male officer, sees her struggling and he fires his weapon four times at this individual, striking him twice." Police said O'Roarke was hit in the head with the hammer three times during the brutal attack.
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