Police in Yonkers were searching for a suspect at the centre of a police-involved shooting in the Bronx, after an incident that began with a carjacking and ended with an officer firing several shots. As of the latest reports, the person at the heart of the case remained at large.
According to police, the events began after officers went after a vehicle that had been linked to a carjacking. The pursuit led into the Bronx and ended with shots fired on the Major Deegan Expressway, in the area near Van Cortland Park.
The scene was near the intersection of the Major Deegan and Mosholu Parkway. Video posted to the Citizen App showed officers from the Yonkers department at the location as they responded to the unfolding situation.
At one point, police said, the suspect drove the wrong way on the Mosholu Parkway exit ramp and crashed head-on into a Yonkers police cruiser. The collision brought the vehicles together violently in the middle of the roadway.
As officers tried to arrest the suspect, the driver is said to have driven directly at a uniformed officer who was outside of his vehicle at the time. The officer fired several shots at the suspect before the driver was able to get away from the scene.
The officer who had been in the cruiser was hurt in the incident, but police said he is expected to be okay. It was not immediately clear whether the fleeing suspect had been struck by any of the shots that were fired.
With the driver still on the run, Yonkers police continued to search for the person at the centre of the case. Investigators were working to piece together the sequence that ran from the carjacking to the crash and the shooting, in an incident that played out across a busy stretch of the Bronx.