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Post by WaTcHeR on Feb 14, 2007 15:27:57 GMT -5
Officer Washington Zurita made headlines as a rookie police officer when an armed robbery suspect shot and wounded him, yet he still managed to kill the suspect. Friday, Zurita made news of a different kind when he was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after getting into a car accident in the Bronx, police said. Zurita, now a sergeant assigned to the Emergency Service Unit, was off-duty when the accident occurred at 4:44 a.m. Friday, police said. Neither Zurita nor the driver of a second car was injured. No further details were released. Zurita has been suspended without pay. On June 6, 1997, Zurita, then 28 and assigned to the 44th Precinct, was shot in the hand and arm as he struggled with an armed robbery suspect. With his other hand, Zurita pulled out his gun and fatally shot the suspect. At the time, police said the chain of events began when Zurita and his partner, Officer Robert Caralyus, also a rookie, were flagged down on the Grand Concourse by a man who said he and three friends had been robbed. The victim told the officers that he and his friends had followed the suspect to a nearby building. It was inside the building that Zurita struggled with the suspect. Police said Zurita was shot as he covered the suspect's gun to prevent bystanders from getting hurt. "They acted precisely the way you'd have wanted them to act," then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani said at the time. www.amny.com/news/local/am-dwi0210,0,7845644.story?coll=am-local-headlines
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