On November 4, 2016, NYPD Sergeant Paul Tuozzolo, 41, was shot and killed in the Bronx while responding to a domestic violence call. A 911 caller had reported that her estranged husband, 35-year-old Manuel Rosales, had broken into her Beach Avenue apartment armed and had threatened to kill her in the past. The woman’s three-year-old son, another child and her mother were in the apartment when the call was made.

Minutes later officers, including Sergeant Tuozzolo and his partner Sergeant Emmanuel Kwo, spotted Rosales’ red Jeep about half a mile away at Noble and Bronx River Avenues. As the officers approached the vehicle, Rosales opened fire with a .45-caliber handgun. Tuozzolo was struck in the head and Kwo was wounded in the leg. Other officers returned fire, killing Rosales at the scene; Tuozzolo died at Jacobi Medical Center and Kwo was later released. Tuozzolo, a 19-year NYPD veteran, was posthumously promoted and awarded the Medal of Honor.

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