New York police officer and suspect killed in Bronx shootout

New York Police officers arrive at the Jacobi Medical Center after a police officer was fatally shot and another wounded in the Bronx by a heavily armed robbery suspect, in New York

New York: A New York City police sergeant was fatally shot and another was wounded on Friday in a shootout on the streets of the Bronx that also resulted in the death of the suspect, a man who had just broken into the apartment of his estranged wife.

The officers were responding to a call about the break-in and encountered the suspect's vehicle about half a mile (1 km) away where the man opened fire with a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun, Police Commissioner James O'Neill told a news conference.