By Tamer El-Ghobashy and Sean Gardiner
A Nassau County Police officer was shot and killed in Queens Tuesday during a incident in which a suspect was also fatally shot, a law enforcement official said.
A second suspect in the shooting, which occurred on the Cross Island Parkway near the Belmont Race Track, is still being sought, the official said.
According to the official, the officer had pulled a car over at about 11:10 am at the entrance ramp to the parkway at 241[SUP]st[/SUP] Street and Jamaica Avenue.
It was unclear what led to the gun violence and why the police officer from Long Island had crossed into Queens. Authorities shut down the parkway while the investigation and the search for the second suspect continues.
The shooting comes just days after Officer Joseph P. Olivieri, 43 years old, was struck and killed while responding to an accident on the Long Island Expressway. Olivieri was the 33[SUP]rd[/SUP] Nassau officer to die in the line of duty since the department was created in 1925. The last such death occurred on March 12, 2011, when Officer Geoffrey J. Breitkopf was shot accidentally by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority officer at a crime scene.
A Nassau County Police officer was shot and killed in Queens Tuesday during a incident in which a suspect was also fatally shot, a law enforcement official said.
A second suspect in the shooting, which occurred on the Cross Island Parkway near the Belmont Race Track, is still being sought, the official said.
According to the official, the officer had pulled a car over at about 11:10 am at the entrance ramp to the parkway at 241[SUP]st[/SUP] Street and Jamaica Avenue.
It was unclear what led to the gun violence and why the police officer from Long Island had crossed into Queens. Authorities shut down the parkway while the investigation and the search for the second suspect continues.
The shooting comes just days after Officer Joseph P. Olivieri, 43 years old, was struck and killed while responding to an accident on the Long Island Expressway. Olivieri was the 33[SUP]rd[/SUP] Nassau officer to die in the line of duty since the department was created in 1925. The last such death occurred on March 12, 2011, when Officer Geoffrey J. Breitkopf was shot accidentally by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority officer at a crime scene.