NYPD officer Wilbert Mora has died four days after he was critically injured in an ambush attack which also killed his rookie partner.
The 27-year-old has been hospitalized since being gunned down along with 22-year-old partner Jason Rivera in Harlem on Friday while responding to a domestic violence call. They are the first two officers to be killed by gunfire in the city since 2017.
Mora needed two surgeries after he was shot in the head and a bullet lodged in his brain, but he could not be saved. He died a NYU Langone Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
Career criminal Lashawn McNeil, 47, who carried out the attack, was shot in the head and arm by a third officer responding to the call, Sumit Sulan. He died from his injuries on Monday.
On Tuesday, NYPD Comissioner Keechant Sewell said that Wilbert is 'three times a hero'.
'For choosing a life of service. For sacrificing his life to protect others. For giving life even in death through organ donation. Our heads are bowed and our hearts are heavy,' she said.
Wilbert Mora, 27, (right) died on Tuesday - four days after the attack. His partner Jason Rivera, 22 (left) was killed in the shooting
New York City's new mayor Eric Adams has said that he believes 'everyone needs to see' the distressing bodycam footage of the shooting, which has been described as a 'complete execution'.
'When we talk about the dangers involved in policing, it tore me apart to see what happened to those officers and what has happened to far too many officers,' the mayor - who is a former police officer - told 1010 WINS radio on Tuesday.
McNeil, who was shot by a third officer, Sumit Sulan, has since succumbed to his injuries and died on Monday
Yesterday, he vowed to end the scourge of gun violence plaguing his city by reviving a disbanded police unit, injecting cash into community projects, and vowing to dismantle weapons trafficking networks.
'We are going to do a lot more than pray.
