Crime Story

Two Police Officers Shot in Queens
By Al Baker an Sewell Chan
October 21, 2008

This article is about two police officers who got shot in Queens by a Dominican Republic native gunman in the train station. The 32-year-old gunman tried using a student metro card, and one of the police officers saw him and tried to hand cuff him, but the gunman resisted, and took out his gun. He shot the officer that approached him and the officer who intervened.

The gunman had a record of once being deported for a narcotics violation and that he might have returned illegally. While in the hospital, the gunman confronted that he was afraid the arrest meant he would be taken back to his native country.

This article is an important crime story, because it deals with police officers getting shot by an immigrant. Besides the crime story, this article expresses the fear of an immigrant and what the immigrant did to avoid getting sent back to his country. That tells the reader something about the United States Immigration Standards Policy and how it is driving immigrants insane to the point where they have to feel panicked about a police officer approaching them.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/two-police-officers-shot-in-queens/?scp=5&sq=crime%20news&st=cse