surveillance footage shows shot cop killing robber

The NYPD released dramatic surveillance footage Thursday showing a wounded, off-duty police officer clutching his bloody chest 27 year old transit cop Ivan Marcano a four year veteran was shot in the chest Wednesday evening as he left his car to help a man who was being pistol whipped by muggers on Harrison Avenue  in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. When the officer flashed his shield and identified himself he was shot by one suspect in the chest. Marcano got back into his car which was being driven by his girlfriend and she started heading for a hospital. Thats when fate intervened. The surveillance footage shows the officers white car getting stuck behind a white Mustang at a traffic light  at the intersection of Harrision and West Burnside Avenues. The Mustang lurches forward hits a black livery cab and careens onto the sidewalk. Thats when Officer Marcano is seen leaving his own car realizing the suspects who shot him just fled the Mustang.
Holding his left hand over his wound with his gun in his right hand Officer Marcano moved to the middle of the street Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly explained took cover behind the livery cab yelled to passersby to get down and fired. He moved a second time still holding a hand over his wound to the west side of Harrison Avenue where he took cover behind a parked car and fired another round at the suspects. In a remarkable display of marksmanship and cool under fire Officer Marcano fired striking one of the suspects in the head.  That suspect died on the sidewalk next to the Mustang.The dead suspect was identified late Thursday afternoon as 18 year old Prince James of the Bronx. The NYPD also released a photo of 20 year old Jason Leiva identifying him as a person of interest in the case. Leiva was described as a male Hispanic 5’8 tall about 148 pounds.Officer Marcano underwent surgery Thursday to have the bullet removed from his chest and was expected to make a good recovery. Aldo Valencia a senior citizen who lives near the crime scene heard at least eight gunshots last evening. When he heard about Marcanos heroics he saidGod bless him! Hes still alive! Hes got guts this guy.PBA President Patrick Lynch visited the wounded officer at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Thursday afternoon and talked about the brazen new criminals not afraid to shoot a cop. A day before Officer Marcano was nearly killed an onduty Nassau County police officer Arthur Lopez was fatally shot point blank in the chest during a traffic stop on the Queens Nassau border.
Right now theyre not afraid and theyre trying to kill us Lynch said of armed thugs. The union president attributed the daring attitudes to a reduction in the number of police officers on the NYPD force.   Were down seven thousand police officers Lynch said. Officer Ivan Marcano works in Transit District 12 in the Bronx and has been on the job about four years.