Overview
- An off-duty NYPD detective was ambushed and stabbed multiple times while walking to his car in Norwood, Bronx, in a robbery attempt that occurred Friday near Rochambeau Avenue and East 206th–208th Streets.
- Police say two men on a motorized e‑bike approached the officer, forcefully removed his chain after stabbing him and fled southbound on the bike; the detective was taken to Jacobi Medical Center and is in stable condition.
- The NYPD released video and images showing two male suspects on the e‑bike and urged anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers by phone, online, or via X @NYPDTips.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch visited the wounded detective at the hospital, and the NYPD canceled a planned crime-statistics briefing in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
- Officials and reporting note this incident fits a wider pattern of fast jewelry robberies that use motorized bikes for quick getaways, and investigators are treating the case as an active manhunt while seeking public tips.