A hatchet-swinging psycho with Islamic militant leanings turned a busy Queens street corner into a scene of bloody chaos Thursday, chopping a rookie cop in the back of the head and slicing a second officer on the arm before two other officers shot him dead.
In opening fire on the madman, cops accidentally wounded a bystander, authorities said.
Officer Kenneth Healey, 25, had just four months on the job when Zale Thompson, 32, of Queens a “scholarly” but “weird” recent convert to Islam fractured the back of the cop’s skull with one swing of a blue-handled hatchet at about 2 p.m, according to nypost.
“The cops yelled, ‘Drop it!’ ” recalled eyewitness Larry Bethune, 44, who watched the violence unspool at Jamaica Avenue and 160th Street.
“He raised his arm up high and brought it straight down on the cop’s head,” the eyewitness added.
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In opening fire on the madman, cops accidentally wounded a bystander, authorities said.
Officer Kenneth Healey, 25, had just four months on the job when Zale Thompson, 32, of Queens a “scholarly” but “weird” recent convert to Islam fractured the back of the cop’s skull with one swing of a blue-handled hatchet at about 2 p.m, according to nypost.
“The cops yelled, ‘Drop it!’ ” recalled eyewitness Larry Bethune, 44, who watched the violence unspool at Jamaica Avenue and 160th Street.
“He raised his arm up high and brought it straight down on the cop’s head,” the eyewitness added.
Read More; http://nypost.com/2014/10/23/man-shot-dead-after-striking-cop-in-the-head-with-ax/
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