The post also included an image of a silver handgun and the message, “This may be my final post.” Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot in the head and were pronounced dead Saturday evening at Woodhull Medical Center. The mayor ordered flags at half-staff. When some workers confronted Brinsley on the street, he pointed his gun at him and asked them, “You want some of this?” Authorities in Baltimore County, Md. said that Brimsley had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend at an apartment complex in Owings Mills early in the morning before traveling to New York. His family says that he attempted suicide in the past, including trying to hang himself last year. NYPD Director of Investigations Robert Boyce, said there were 10 eyewitnesses and 35 “earwitnesses” to the crime and at least five videos were recovered.The last shooting death of an NYPD officer came in December 2011.
