Overview
- An off‑duty NYPD detective was approached and stabbed during an attempted robbery near East 206th Street and Rochambeau Avenue on Friday afternoon, prompting a major police response.
- The officer, assigned to the 44th Precinct, was taken to Jacobi Medical Center with multiple wounds to the neck and leg and remains in stable condition.
- Investigators say two men rode up on a motorized e‑bike, stabbed the detective and fled southbound on Rochambeau Avenue, and the NYPD released images of the riders to the public.
- City leaders canceled a scheduled NYPD crime‑statistics briefing and both the mayor and the police commissioner went to the hospital to visit the wounded officer.
- The investigation is ongoing with no arrests reported, police are asking the public for tips through Crime Stoppers, and officials say the use of e‑bikes complicates rapid tracking and enforcement.