Police Search for Accomplices Of Dead Would-Be Robber
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Police are investigating several people who may have conspired with a man whom a police officer shot and killed during an attempted robbery of the officer’s wife.
Officials said the woman was holding $20,000, allegedly won in an illegal lottery, for a man in jail.
Police said they are not sure how Carlos Rios, 47, who was killed on Saturday, knew that Officer Nadin Perez’s wife had the money.
Officer Perez chased Rios after he grabbed Officer Perez’s wife and her 3-year-old daughter in the hallway of their apartment building on E. 201st St. Rios pointed a gun over his shoulder as he ran away but didn’t fire, police said. Officer Perez told officials he saw the gun, heard his own gunshot ricocheting in the hallway, and believed he was being fired on.
Police said they are investigating several people who may have told Rios about the money or made plans with him to steal it.
The officer had no knowledge of the gambling money, and he is not under investigation, police said.
“The shooting appears to be within guidelines,” a police spokesman, Assistant Chief Michael Collins, said.
