Officers suspended after fatal shooting response
A man was found dead in Brooklyn Saturday after two NYPD cops blew off a 911 call that could have potentially saved his life, sources said.
The officers were suspended following the bungled response to a 911 call from a neighbor reporting a man screaming for help near her home on Decatur St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said.
The cops went to the address near Thomas S. Boyland St. shortly after 6 a.m. But the pair, apparently convinced that the report was unfounded, never left their car, sources said.
A second 911 call was made some 20 minutes later. The responding officers this time found a 43-year-old man’s lifeless body, sources said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
It was not immediately clear if the same cops responded to both calls.
The identity of the dead man was not released.