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Randolph Holder, NYPD officer, shot in head in East Harlem dies, officials say

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  • Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner William Bratton arrive for a news conference about Officer Randolph Holder, 33, of Brooklyn, early Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, at Harlem Hospital Center. Holder was pronounced dead at the hospital late Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, after he was shot in the head during a foot pursuit in East Harlem, Bratton said.
    Photo Credit: Patrick McCarthy
  • NYPD Commissioner William Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio arrive for a news conference about Officer Randolph Holder, 33, of Brooklyn, early Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, at Harlem Hospital Center. Holder was pronounced dead at the hospital late Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, just hours after he was shot in the head during a foot pursuit in East Harlem, Bratton said.
    Photo Credit: Patrick McCarthy
  • Members of the NYPD gather Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, at East 120 Street and the FDR Drive in Manhattan, where police investigating the shooting of Officer Randolph Holder said they recovered two firearms. Holder, a 33-year-old Brooklyn resident, died later that night.
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • Police investigate after NYPD Officer Randolph Holder, 33, of Brooklyn was shot in the head during a foot pursuit in East Harlem on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. Holder was pronounced dead late that night at a Harlem hospital, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said early Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015.
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • NYPD investigators gather Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, at East 120 Street and the FDR Drive in Manhattan, where police said they recovered two firearms. The scene is just blocks from where Officer Randolph Holder, 33, of Brooklyn was fatally shot in the head during a foot pursuit in East Harlem.
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • NYPD investigators gather Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, at East 120 Street and the FDR Drive in Manhattan, where police said they recovered two firearms. The scene also is where Officer Randolph Holder, 33, of Brooklyn was shot in the head during a foot pursuit in East Harlem.
    Photo Credit: John Roca

An NYPD plainclothes officer assigned to the housing bureau died late Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 at a Harlem hospital after a suspect shot him in the head during a foot pursuit, Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a news conference where the officer was treated.

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