Randolph Holder shooting: Latest news about the killing of the NYPD officer

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• Al Sharpton has decided not to eulogize Officer Holder at his funeral Wednesday. “I refuse, despite my strong feelings on police issues, to be part of anything that would marginalize and take away from the focus of this city and nation mourning your son tomorrow,” he said in a letter to Holder’s father. Sharpton had previously accepted an invitation to deliver the officer’s eulogy. Read more at newsday.com.

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• in a search for the weapon used in Holder’s death. Forensics tests — including DNA analysis and ballistics — revealed the gun was the same weapon used to kill Holder, police said at a news conference where members of the scuba team displayed their equipment from the dive. Det. John Mortimer, pictured above and identified by the NYPD as the officer who found the weapon, recalled being on his stomach when he spotted a “black firearm.” “I got it here,” he remembered saying of the discovery. ” data-id=”111014084″ data-link=”https://amnewyork.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/25047_image.jpg” class=”wp-image-1.11014084″/>

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NYPD Officer Randolph Holder was shot and killed during the pursuit of a suspect in East Harlem. He was the fourth New York City police officer killed in the line of duty over the past 11 months.

On the night of Oct. 20, 2015, Holder was on the roof of 420 E. 102nd St. with a fellow housing bureau plainclothes officer when they witnessed a group of men shooting at each other, police said.

As the officers took pursuit of the men, they crossed paths with one of the men, who was on a bike, police said. That man, identified by authorities as Tyrone Howard, put down the bike and fired one time, striking Holder in the front of the head. The officer was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital.

Howard, 30, was charged with first-degree murder in the officer’s death.

Here’s the latest on the fatal shooting of Officer Holder.