On Saturday, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, two NYPD officers sitting in their squad car on the corner of Myrtle Ave and Tompkins Ave in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, were shot and killed execution style by a disturbed 28-year old man, who had shot his ex-girlfriend in Baltimore that morning. Unfortunately, one of them wasn’t even supposed to be working that day.
The NYPD told the New York Daily News that Liu was voluntarily covering for a fellow police officer, Ramos’ partner, who was running late and phoned in to let his superior’s know he wasn’t going to be on time. Brass reached out to see if anybody would be able to cover for Ramos’ partner, whose identity has yet to be revealed. Liu responded, and volunteered. One NYPD member says about Liu, “he wasn’t supposed to be there.”
A source had this to say to the Daily News about the officer Liu was covering for: “The kid is very, very distraught. He’s beside himself. It’s very, very hard for him.”
