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A Bed-Stuy standoff ended with a detective shot, a gunman dead, and an elderly couple trapped upstairs the whole time

A hours-long standoff at 190 Kosciuszko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant left a 15-year NYPD veteran shot, a 48-year-old gunman dead, and an elderly couple trapped upstairs during the chaos.

A Bed-Stuy standoff ended with a detective shot, a gunman dead, and an elderly couple trapped upstairs the whole time

A hours-long standoff at 190 Kosciuszko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant left a 15-year NYPD veteran shot, a 48-year-old gunman dead, and an elderly couple trapped upstairs during the chaos.

It started before sunrise and did not end for hours. By the time it was over, a 15-year NYPD veteran had been shot and a 48-year-old man was dead. An elderly couple had spent the morning trapped on the same floor as the gunman.

Police were called to 190 Kosciuszko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 5:45 a.m. on June 19 after shots were fired inside the brownstone, according to the NYPD and reporting from amNY…

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