Detectives investigating death of NYPD cop’s brother shot in eye in Harlem apartment 28%
By Rebecca White40% Thomas Tracy41%
7/18/2026, 10:25:20 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Unattributed Quote, and Halo Effect, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 30.1% saturation with 110 hits. Analysis detected 478 faulty-reasoning hits from 365 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38.9% and a BS Rank of 28% (14,843 of 20,372 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 72.90% of the article peer group.
The 24-year-old brother of a rookie NYPD cop was shot in the eye and killed inside a Harlem apartment early Saturday, police said.
Members of the NYPD Force Investigation Division, which handles all police-involved shootings, have been tasked with trying to determine if the new officer was involved in the killing, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
Cops were called to the third-floor apartment on Frederick Douglass Blvd. near Macombs Place around 1:30 a.m.
Police investigate after a man was found with a gunshot wound to the eye inside an apartment on Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Macombs Place in Manhattan early Saturday.
(Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
The victim was shot in the right eye.
He died at the scene and his name was not immediately disclosed.
Nor was the name of his sibling, who police sources said just graduated the NYPD Police Academy.
It wasn’t clear what sparked the shooting.
NYPD detectives were investigating the possibility that it was accidental, according to police sources.
Crime scene detectives were seen removing paper bags full of items from the apartment throughout the morning.
A police spokesman confirmed that the fatal shooting involved a cop’s “family member.”
Neighbors said the officer's family had lived in the building for at least two decades.
“The family is a great family.
They are lovely,” said a neighbor, 79, who only identified herself as Lynn.
“Everybody in the family was very intelligent and I watched them grow up.”
“I just think they’re a fantastic family,” she added.
“They stay together.
Never bother nobody.
They mind their business.”
Lynn believes the officer's weapon went off by mistake.
“It had to be an accident because the two brothers, they loved one another,” she said, adding no one ever heard yelling coming from the apartment.
“They were very close.
That’s why we don’t know what’s going on.”
Neighbors didn't recall hearing anything out of the ordinary before the shooting.
The first indication they knew something was wrong were police cruisers outside.
“I didn’t hear anything,” Jason, 42, an upstairs neighbor, said.
“Those people are very quiet.”
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