An NYPD officer was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly shot his ex-girlfriend and killed another woman, according to police. He was off-duty when he went to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment, and waited there for her to show up with her new partner.
Off-duty NYPD cop shot ex-girlfriend, killed another woman
NYPD Deputy Chief Michael Kemper described the officer at a news conference as a 31-year-old man who had worked for the department for five years and had recently been assigned to a Brooklyn precinct, The New York Times reported .
A spokesman for the department told Insider on Thursday that it would not release the officer’s name because charges are still pending, but a police official who spoke to the Times anonymously to discuss the ongoing investigation identified the officer as Yvonne Wu.
Police sources told the New York Daily News that Wu was off-duty when she went to the Brooklyn apartment of her ex-girlfriend, Jenny Li, and waited there for Li to show up with her new partner, Jamie Liang.
According to the report, Wu opened fire and shot Li and Liang in the chest when they arrived at the apartment, wounding Li and killing Liang.
Theresa DiGirolamo, a woman who lives a few doors down from Li’s apartment, told the Times she heard “four or five” sounds that sounded like a paper bag going off around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. DiGirolamo told the newspaper he didn’t realize he might have heard a gunshot until he saw paramedics load one of the women into the back of an ambulance.
Li made a 911 call shortly after the shooting, the Daily News reported. Law enforcement sources told the newspaper that the operator could hear someone say “that’s what’s wrong with you” in the background of the call.
One of Li’s friends told the Daily News that Li and Wu had been living together in Brooklyn before separating about a month ago. The friend told the newspaper that Wu had been “possessive” during the relationship and that Li “just couldn’t take it anymore.”
