Officer Brian Moore, 25, had been on the way to a very promising career for himself at the NYPD with a record of more than 150 arrests and earning service medals in his service of less than 5 years.
It all came to an end on when he had been declared dead at a hospital in Queens, two days after he had been shot in the head. He has been the son, nephew and cousins of police officers, who all had been by his side at the end of his short-lived life which had been brought by a man with an extensive criminal record inclusive of doing 5 years of time for an attempted murder charge shot him in the head.
Following the Saturday evening shooting, Moore had been in a coma after undergoing brain surgery.
Hundreds of uniformed officers had been standing at attention outside the hospital and lined down the block in Moore’s respect to salute the ambulance carrying his body, many of them with tearful eyes.
Emphasizing on Moore’s arrest record and medals, Police Commissioner William Bratton said “He proved himself to be an exceptional young officer.” Moore had been with the department since 2010.
Moore and his partners were attired in plainclothes in an unmarked police vehicle in a quiet neighborhood in Queens when they saw Demetrius Blackwell adjusting his waistband, which made them suspect he possessed a handgun leading them to approach him, according to authorities.
Moore and his partner pulled up their car next to Blackwell, 35, and exchanged words before Blackwell unexpectedly pulled out a weapon and fired at them twice at least, striking Moore in the head and face.
Prosecutors have said that Blackwell will be charged with first-degree murder. He already has charges of attempted murder and other crimes and is being held without bail. He has not entered a plea and his attorney has denied the charges.
The death of Moore had been mourned by Mayor Bill de Blasio who said at a news conference, “He risked his life for a very simple notion — to keep everyone else safe, to keep our society safe, to keep order. This is what he wanted to do.”