NYPD Officer Shot and Killed in the Bronx in 'Unprovoked Attack

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A police officer was shot and killed while sitting in a marked NYPD command vehicle with her partner in the Bronx Wednesday morning in what officials called "an unprovoked attack on cops."
NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia, 48, was stationed in a mobile command post -- a RV-sized truck used as a communications hub during major events like the Fourth of July -- in the area of 183rd Street and Morris Avenue in Fordham, according to Police Commissioner James O'Neill.

She was wrapping up her shift just after midnight and had been looking down, writing in her memo book -- a police log where officers record their shift activity -- when a gunman walked up and fired through the passenger side window, O'Neill said.

The gunman, identified by police as 34-year-old Alexander Bonds of the Bronx, is seen in surveillance footage leaving a convenience store, then moving tightly along the wall, pulling his hoodie over his head and walking purposefully toward the van, according to officials. The video doesn't capture the shooting but shows him running from the scene with a gun in his hand, police said.

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A motive in the shooting is still not clear, but Alexander Bonds of the Bronx, who also went by the name John Bonds, once ranted online about his treatment in prison and about police getting away with killing people, The Associated Press reported.

Bonds had been on parole for a robbery case in Syracuse, police said. He had also been arrested six times in New York City, including in 2001 when he kicked and punched police officers while wearing brass knuckles, law enforcement sources told News 4.