NYPD cop, 31, is shot and killed by career criminal with 21 arrests

A young police officer was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop in New York on Monday night by a career criminal with 21 prior arrests.

'Can I say it any clearer? It is the good guys against the bad guys,' he told a press conference from the hospital in Queens where the officer was pronounced dead.Neighbors heard shots ring out at 5.50pm, less than two blocks from the NYPD's 101st Precinct stationhouse before seeing the fatally injured officer lying in the streetThe suspect was named by the New York Post as 34-year-old Guy Rivera.

When they asked the 34-year-old suspect to step out of the car he refused, pointed a gun at the officers and fired, hitting Diller in the torso just below his bullet-resistant vest. Witnesses heard the shots ring out at 5.50pm, less than two blocks from the NYPD's 101st Precinct stationhouse.'The police officer fell on the floor and the other officers dragged the two guys out of the car. I was running for cover.'He was rolling around on the ground saying, 'I'm shot, I'm shot',' another witness said.

Diller and a colleague were working in Far Rockaway as part of the NYPD Critical Response Team focusing on car crime.'We need a bus here ASAP!' one screamed, 'We have an officer shot!'He was shot in the back as police returned fire before both injured men were taken to the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens where only the gunman was expected to survive.

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