2 NYPD Officers Dead In Brooklyn Shooting...“The perp came out of the houses, walked up behind the car and lit them up,” a high-ranking police official told the Daily News (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post |  By Andres Jauregui Email Posted: 12/20/2014 5:11 pm EST 

Two NYPD officers are dead after a gunman shot into a patrol car in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, police said.

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The gunman was pursued by other officers and entered a subway station, where authorities said he then fatally shot himself in the head. “The perp came out of the houses, walked up behind the car and lit them up,” a high-ranking police official told the Daily News.

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While the shooter had not yet been identified, the suspect is said to have earlier threatened police in a social media message, a law enforcement source told WNBCand News12. The suspect may have come from Baltimore, and law enforcement wasinvestigating the suspect's background, unnamed officials told the New York Times' J. David Goodman.

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