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Police: 2 NYPD cops fatally shot execution-style

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  • Mourners embrace during a gathering at a memorial for slain NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014. The two were fatally shot a day before in an ambush attack near the intersection of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara
  • Officers gather at a memorial for slain NYPD comrades Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara
  • Police officers and mourners embrace on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, to light candles and pray at a memorial near the site of the shootings in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara
  • Mourners gather at a makeshift memorial in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, to pay their respects to the two officers killed there a day before.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara
  • Candles and flowers are left at a makeshift memorial in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, for NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were fatally shot near the intersection of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues a day before.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara
  • Adrien Esteven, of Brookyln, gathers to light candles and pray at a makeshift memorial in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara
  • Candles and flowers are left at a memorial in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, on the street where NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were killed a day before.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara
  • Lucy Ramos, aunt of slain NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos, gathers with family and friends during a news conference outside their home in Brooklyn on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014.
    Photo Credit: Steven Sunshine
  • A memorial for two police officers who were shot and killed on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, lies outside the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn on Sunday, Dec. 21. Officers Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Ramos, 40, were ambushed by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, as they sat in their cruiser in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, police say.
    Photo Credit: Steven Sunshine
  • The Rev. Al Sharpton walks with Esaw Garner, wife of Eric Garner, before he and the family members of Garner denounced violence in their loved one's name Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, in the wake or the shooting deaths of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • The Rev. Al Sharpton stands with Esaw Garner, left, wife of Eric Garner, and Gwen Carr, right, mother of Eric Garner, as they denounced violence in their loved one's name Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, in the wake or the shooting deaths of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • NYPD Commissioner William Bratton listens as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a quiet, but emotional, news conference at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, in the wake of a fatal shooting of two NYPD officers.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks as NYPD Commissioner William Bratton listens during a news conference at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, in the wake of a fatal shooting of two NYPD officers.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • NYPD officers gather at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, in the wake of a shooting deaths of two of their comrades as they sat in their patrol car.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • New York Mayor Bill de Blasio leaves a news conference at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, in the wake of a shooting of two NYPD officers as they sat in their car at a nearby intersection. At left is NYPD Chief of Department James O'Neill, and at right is Chief of Patrol Carlos Gomez.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Ismaaiyl Brinsley in a photo provided by the NYPD on Sunday, December 21, 2014. Brinsley allegedly shot and killed NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Ramos, 40, as they sat in their patrol car near Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Investigators work in the area where two NYPD officers were shot and killed in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014.
    Photo Credit: CS Muncy
  • Two NYPD officers were shot in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014.
    Photo Credit: CS Muncy
  • Investigators work in the area where two NYPD officers were shot and killed in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014.
    Photo Credit: CS Muncy
  • First responders are shown at the scene near the intersection of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn where two NYPD officers were shot and killed on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014.
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • First responders are shown at the scene near the intersection of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn where two NYPD officers were shot and killed on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014.
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • First responders are shown at the scene near the intersection of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn where two NYPD officers were shot and killed on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014.
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • First responders are shown at the scene near the intersection of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn where two NYPD officers were shot and killed on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014.
    Photo Credit: John Roca

Two NYPD officers were shot and killed in Brooklyn on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014.

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