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A tragic end.
An off-duty police officer shot by a patrolman in a case of mistaken identity has died, city officials said.
Officer Eric Hernandez died Wednesday at St. Barnabas Hospital in the
Bronx, where he had been in critical condition since the incident on
Jan. 28.The on-duty patrolman shot Hernandez, 24, in each leg
and the stomach. Police said the shooting stemmed from a dispute
between Hernandez — who had been drinking and was in street clothes –
and several other men at a fast-food restaurant.
Officer Hernandez, who had visited several local clubs that night, had been attacked by six men inside a White Castle. Officer’s believe he was disorientated from the beating and pulled his gun on a man in the parking lot of the White Castle who he thought had had something to do with the beating.
When an officer in uniform responded on the scene he saw Hernandez, in plain clothes, holding someone at gunpoint. For reasons unknown, but possibly from still being disorientated from the beating, Officer Hernandez never identified himself as a police officer and didn’t respond to the uniformed officer’s demands to drop the weapon. The NYPD has backed up the shooting and said that the uniformed officer followed correct procedure.
Officer Hernandez was 24.
Officer Shot In Mistaken ID Incident Dies [WNBC]
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4 Comments
1. Chimp
2. James
3. Chimpy
4. Liz
Want a neat little picture by your comments? Get one here.The outcry and attendent media attention are only there because he was a cop. If he wasn’t a cop, it would be a justified killing in the eyes of the world.
It’s sad, but why the fuck bring your gun with you out clubbing and then to the White Castle? And why is it always so tragic when a cop gets whacked, but oh-so-understandable when they whack somebody else?
I hate to see anyone die violently; I just really get sick of the same reflexive reaction to it.
Posted Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 12:43 am | Permalink
I agree with you Chimp. I was trying to cover it as a 24-year-old man lost his life, not a cop.
But you’re right, had the guy not been a cop, you never would have heard the end of about how he had been out drinking and clubbing, and how non-responsive he was.
Posted Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 12:52 am | Permalink
True dat.
Posted Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 2:02 pm | Permalink
You guys don’t get it. Its not about a cop getting away with carrying a gun, its about thugs ruining two GOOD lives, Eric Hernandez’s and the cop who shot him. If you sort through the information available to the public and witness statements, he didn’t take out his gun inside the restaurant while he was getting beaten. Nor did he use it to intimidate his assailants before or during the attack [then I’d agree it would have made him reckless]. He took out his gun outside of the restaurant when he thought he felt that his life was endangered for the 2nd time. If you were in the same shoes and were carrying a gun I’m CERTAIN you would have done the same. I know I would have. Its called basic instinct, self-defense. By focusing on the gun you are encouraging the barbaric behavior those thugs demonstrated. I don’t want my tax dollars to pay for their confinement. We know who they are, they’re on tape, I think they should all be executed.
Posted Monday, February 13, 2006 at 9:50 pm | Permalink
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