The gunman who allegedly shot and wounded an off-duty NYPD cop during a “targeted” Yonkers attack this week has been charged with attempted murder, police said.
Bryan Martinez, 30, of Port Chester, approached the 27-year-old cop from behind and let off about 13 rounds – striking him once in the right arm as he sat in his car around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, waiting to enter the Saw Mill River Parkway, Yonkers Police said.
Martinez and the officer, of Yonkers, were known to each other as acquaintances through family members, and the shooting “was a targeted attack that stemmed from a personal dispute” between the two men, cops said.
The officer drove himself to a nearby hospital for treatment and has since been released, authorities said.
Meanwhile, Martinez took off, cops said.
He was nabbed hours later, once investigators connected his vehicle to the shooting and tracked him down in Port Chester, cops said.
Martinez was formally charged on Thursday night, also facing raps for assault and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
He was expected to be arraigned Friday.
“We do not stand for acts of violence in this City, let alone violence that amounts to gunshots being fired at an off-duty Police Officer,” Yonkers Police Commissioner Christopher Sapienza said in a statement. “I applaud our Detective Division for their outstanding work and for living up to their remarkable case-closure rate with this arrest.”
“We thank our law enforcement partners in this County and with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for once again working with us to solve this case and remove yet another violent offender from our streets.”
The NYPD confirmed Tuesday that the victim was an off-duty officer, but did not provide any additional information about him.
