A series of shootings in Brooklyn over the Fourth of July weekend left several people injured, including a New York City police detective and four children.
During an early Sunday morning incident in Crown Heights, Detective Robert Karroll from the New York Police Department’s Sex Offender Monitoring Unit was shot in the back of his protective vest while confronting an armed teenager, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. She provided these details at a news conference following the event.
Detective Karroll was swiftly transported to Kings County Hospital and is anticipated to recover completely. Another officer involved in the incident sustained facial and shoulder injuries.
Scott Munro, President of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, strongly criticized the outbreak of violence.
On July 5, 2026, members of the NYPD crime scene unit carried out investigations near Nostrand Avenue and St. John’s Place in Brooklyn, where an NYPD officer was shot in the vest. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“This has to stop,” he said at a Sunday morning news conference. “Three weeks ago we had a detective shot – in the same hospital. This has the stop. Our members are out there day and night hours and hours protecting the people of the city of New York doing a job that they took an oath to take and they need to be respected and thank God this detective is going home.”
He sighed relief that “we’re not planning a funeral today.”
Tisch said officers assigned to a mobile field force detail were parked in an unmarked police vehicle near Nostrand Avenue and St. Johns Place around 4:14 a.m. ET when a person approached the car.
“Given the lack of body-worn camera in this incident, the circumstances of the approach are still unclear,” Tisch said, adding the shooting happened “quickly and unexpectedly.”
Ballistic damage is shown on the unmarked NYPD vehicle that officers were sitting in at the scene. The vehicle had bullet holes in the front and rear windshield and the passenger side of the car. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu)
That shooting came hours after four children were injured in Coney Island, where at least eight people were shot.
The victims included two men, two women and four children, ages 14, 12, 7 and 6. All were taken to hospitals. Seven were listed in stable condition, while a 21-year-old woman was in critical condition, police said.
In the shooting of the officers, Tisch said officers got out of the vehicle and tried to engage the armed suspect before three officers fired their weapons. The suspect was not struck, she said. The police vehicle had ballistic damage, including bullet holes in the front and rear windshields and on the passenger side.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch speak at a Sunday morning news conference after a spate of weekend shootings in Brooklyn. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu)
After a foot chase, the suspect was apprehended several blocks away near Rogers Avenue and Union Street. Tisch said he resisted arrest and refused to be handcuffed before officers deployed a taser and took him into custody. A SAR 9mm firearm was recovered.
“I’m relieved that the officer, Detective Robert Karroll, was wearing a bulletproof vest and was not seriously injured as a result of it,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at the news conference, relieved at the survival of “a husband and father of three children.”
Tisch said the officers had been reassigned to the area shortly before midnight as part of the department’s Fourth of July violence reduction plan targeting ongoing crew violence.
Investigators were canvassing nearby businesses for surveillance footage because there was no body-camera video of the shooting itself.