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On December 20, 2014, Rafael Ramos, a 40-year-old New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, was tragically killed in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Ramos, along with his partner Wenjian Liu, was sitting in their patrol car when they were ambushed and shot by Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley. Brinsley approached the passenger side of the patrol car and fired multiple shots through the window, striking both officers in the head and upper body. The attack was a targeted ...Read More
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Rafael Ramos
Male
White / Caucasian
Brooklyn
NY
2014-12-20
40
Rafael
Ramos
11/25/2025






