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An NYPD officer was shot and wounded in Queens Village on Saturday evening, May 2, 2015, setting off an intense search for the suspect, police said. Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • A Nassau County police car sits outside the Massapequa home of NYPD Officer Brian Moore, 25, on Sunday, May 3, 2015. The officer, who was shot Saturday while working in Queens Village, is in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
    Photo Credit: Steve Pfost
  • NYPD officers gather in a show of support near the location on 212th Street in Queens Village where a fellow officer was wounded after being shot by a man that police say he and his partner had wanted to question. Officers set up lights to search for the shooter near homes and darkened alleys.
    Photo Credit: David Trotman-Wilkins
  • NYPD officers gather in a show of support near the location on 212th Street in Queens Village where a fellow officer was wounded after being shot by a man, police said, he and his partner sought to question. Officers and detectives searched the area for the shooter. NYPD officers set up lights to search near homes and darkened alleys.
    Photo Credit: David Trotman-Wilkins
  • NYPD officers set up lights to search near homes and darkened alleys after a fellow officer was wounded by a gunman Saturday night, May 2, 2015, in Queens Village.
    Photo Credit: David Trotman-Wilkins
  • NYPD officers gather in a show of support near the location on 212th Street in Queens Village where a fellow officer was wounded after being shot by a man that police say he and his partner wanted to question.
    Photo Credit: David Trotman-Wilkins
  • A New York police officer was shot and wounded in Queens Village on Saturday evening, May 2, 2015, setting off an intense search for the suspect.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • Police investigate the area where an NYPD officer was shot on 104th Road in Queens Village on Saturday, May 2, 2015.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • Police in massive numbers descended on the Queens Village neighborhood after the 6:15 p.m. shooting on Saturday, May 2, 2015.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • Police from Nassau County raced to Queens to aid NYPD officers in the search before the suspect was caught.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • Police officers investigating the area peered into yards and passing vehicles and told residents to stay in their homes.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • Police search the neighborhood on Saturday, May 2, 2015. The shooting comes five months after two NYPD officers were shot and killed in Brooklyn.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • In the evening of May 2, 2015, police officers conducted an intense search for the suspect in the shooting of an NYPD officer.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • Police investigate the area where an NYPD officer was shot on 104th Road on Saturday, May 2, 2015.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • Police search for the shooting suspect in Queens Village on Saturday evening, May 2, 2015.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • An NYPD officer was shot and wounded in Queens Village on Saturday evening, May 2, 2015, setting off an intense search for the suspect.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit for The New York Times. / ULI SEIT
  • A major police search went throughout the area of 104th Road and 212th Street in Queens Village on Saturday evening, May 2, 2015.
    Photo Credit: David Trotman-Wilkins
  • An NYPD officer was shot and wounded in Queens Village on Saturday evening, May 2, 2015, setting off an intense search for the suspect, police said.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit

A New York City police officer from Long Island was shot in the head in Queens on Saturday evening, setting off an intense hunt for the suspect, an NYPD official said. Officer Brian Moore, 25, of Massapequa was hospitalized that night. Demetrius Blackwell, 35, identified as the suspected shooter, was under arrest.

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