Two suspects in a brazen double police shooting have made incriminating statements, prosecutors said, although one suspect’s lawyer said her client did not shoot at either of the wounded officers.

Robert J. Ellis and Dexter Bostic were ordered held without bail Friday at a Brooklyn hearing. The courtroom was filled with NYPD members, who burst into thunderous applause as the suspects were led off to jail.

Ellis and Bostic did not speak or enter a plea during their appearance before state Supreme Court Judge Richard Allman. The suspects face charges of attempted murder, assault on a police officer and other crimes; if convicted, they face life in prison.

Pennsylvania state troopers captured Ellis early Thursday morning in the Pocono Mountains, ending an intense manhunt that spanned three days and several states. Bostic was caught near the same remote spot on Wednesday.

Investigators said the two had a friend slip them out of the city by car shortly after the shooting. After pooling their money to fill up on gas in Connecticut, they agreed to have the unidentified driver keep going until there was a half a tank, then turn back and leave them behind in the wilderness, police said.

“They were literally hiding in the woods in a desperate attempt to avoid apprehension,” prosecutor Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi said.

Authorities say Bostic and Ellis, both 34-year-old ex-convicts, were riding in a stolen SUV driven by a third man, Lee Woods, when police pulled the vehicle over early Monday morning in Brooklyn.

As officers Herman Yan and Russel Timoshenko approached either side of the vehicle, Bostic shot Mr. Timoshenko in the face with a .45-caliber pistol, and Ellis fired on Mr. Yan with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun, police said.

Prosecutors said in court that both Bostic and Ellis had made incriminating statements about the shooting. They also said investigators had lifted Ellis’s fingerprints off a Popeye’s Chicken box that was found — along with the guns used in the shooting and a third firearm — in a bag ditched near the shooting scene.

But defense attorney Danielle Eaddy said Ellis was driving the car, not Woods, and insisted Ellis had not fired on the officer.

“Yes, he was behind the wheel of the car,” she said, “but that’s a far cry from attempted murder in the first degree.”

The lawyer also accused police of assaulting her client after his arrest.

Police spokesman Paul Browne denied police had abused the prisoner and said forensic evidence supported charges that Woods was the driver.

Mr. Timoshenko, 23, was still in extremely critical condition. Mr. Yan, 26, saved by his bullet-resistant vest, was released from the hospital Tuesday. In a symbolic gesture, police said the officers’ handcuffs were used on Bostic and Ellis after their capture.