NYC 'career criminal' charged in brazen shooting that wounded two officers: 'There is no fear on the streets'
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The New York City "career criminal" accused of using a stolen gun to engage in a brief "gun battle" caught on video that wounded two NYPD police officers Thanksgiving Eve has been charged Saturday.
Vasquez was wounded in the shootout that he allegedly initiated last Wednesday and had undergone surgery.
Officers Alejandra Jacobs and Robert Holmes were both wounded but are expected to make a full recovery, police said. Jacobs, a military veteran and U.S. Air Force Reserves member who had been with the NYPD for one year, was shot twice in the right arm and released from St. Barnabas Hospital on Thursday – greeted by cheering colleagues as she was wheeled outside.
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