Newsnopmics AJAY ANGELINA reporter | Adeed Fayaz, a Pakistani-American police officer of the New York

police who was shot during a suspected robbery in Brooklyn on Saturday night February 4,2023, dies today at his age 26.

He was struggling for life in a city hospital after he was shot by the suspected robber during an alleged

mugging attempt.

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell voiced his grief at the loss in a tweet today, saying “our department

deeply mourns his passing, and his family and loved ones are in our prayers."

“Police officer Adeed Fayaz was a father, a husband, a son, and a protector of our great city,” the commissioner added.

Michael Baldassano, an assistant chief of the NYPD Detective Bureau, told reporters on Sunday that, “the

officer, Fayaz Adeed, was on Ruby Street in East New York on Saturday at around 7 p.m. trying to buy a car he saw listed on Facebook Marketplace.

The police have arrested a suspect, a 38 years old man named Randy Jones from a Days Inn hotel 50 miles away from the crime scene, who was hiding there with his girlfriend and five young children after the incident

on Saturday night.

Sewell told reporters that suspect Jones was handcuffed by an NYPD detective with the cuffs Fayaz used

before he was wounded.“We wanted him to know what he did to that officer and that officer’s cuffs were on him,” NYPD Chief Detective James Essig told the reporters. “I think it sends a powerful message.