NEW YORK, July 5 (Xinhua) -- An on-duty woman officer was shot to death while sitting in a police vehicle early Wednesday in Bronx, the northernmost borough of New York City.
Miosotis Familia, 48, a 12-year veteran of the New York Police Department, was hit in her head by a gunman through a passenger side window of a mobile command unit near the corner of Morris Avenue and East 183rd Street at around 12:30 a.m.
Two other police officers gunned down the shooter, who was later identified as Alexander Bonds, about a block away. The 34-year-old man served seven years in prison for a robbery before he was paroled in May 2013.
"This was an unprovoked direct attack on police officers who were assigned to keep the people of this city safe," Police Commissioner James O'Neill said, calling it an assassination, at a news conference at St. Barnabas Hospital where Familia was pronounced dead about three hours after the shooting.
