NYPD cop killer flew into lethal rage after spat with mom over his vegan diet, killing one officer a

[Klaralven]

NYPD cop killer flew into lethal rage after spat with mom over his vegan diet, killing one officer as second fights for life

A young NYPD officer was fighting for his life Saturday after he was shot and his partner killed in a Harlem apartment ambush set off by a bizarre family feud between a mother and her gun-toting ex-con son over his vegan diet, police sources said.

Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, survived the bullet fired by the remorseless gunman who stepped over the cop’s dying partner to squeeze off another shot inside a narrow hallway in the first-floor apartment after their Friday evening arrival, police sources said.

Lashawn McNeil emerged from his bedroom blasting with a Glock .45 handgun capable of holding 40 rounds, police said, killing 22-year-old Officer Jason Rivera with his first shots.

“Why’d you do that?” his mother screamed at McNeil of Allentown, Pa., who carried a weapon stolen five years ago in Baltimore, police sources told the Daily News. The gunman, shot and wounded by responding Officer Sumit Sulan, had a rap sheet with prior arrests in three states — including a Pennsylvania assault on a police officer, authorities said.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-nypd-officer-shot-20220122-adtxzh3tgraydi5higjgodxkay-story.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. WINS comes in overnight, so I get to hear about the happenings in New York City.

Lashawn McNeil emerged from his bedroom blasting with a Glock .45 handgun capable of holding 40 rounds, police said, killing 22-year-old Officer Jason Rivera with his first shots.

Twenty-two years old.

[NutmegYankee]

3. Drum magazine for the pistol.

There never was any lawful self defense reason for such a device. That officer never stood a chance in such a narrow hallway.

[Dorian Gray]

23. Yep

22 years old. Rookie. This shouldn't have happened.

[BlackSkimmer]

2. Sickening story.

Very sad.

[ripcord]

4. That was so unnecessary nt

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Carnivores are vicious. /nt

[Klaralven]

6. "his vegan diet"

Apparently it was the perp that was vegan.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. That's the only clue, I assumed she was trying to enforce a vegan diet on him

but maybe she was trying to get him to accept conventional food.

[iemanja]

7. I knew this was a tabloid when I read the headline

I don't believe this take. Veganism doesn't make anyone kill.

[stopdiggin]

10. the headline illustrates that an essentially meaningless

domestic dispute escalated into the death of a 22 year old officer - at the hands of an enraged ex-con with illegal weapons at hand. Vegan diet had virtually nothing to do with it.

[Klaralven]

14. Domestic disputes are about the worst calls that cops have to respond to

A robbery in progress is probably preferable.

[stopdiggin]

16. but people are going to squabble

with one another. Might I suggest that the larger problem here is violent offenders with (ready) access to an armament of weapons?

[Demovictory9]

12. simmering family dispute...anything could have kicked it off

[whathehell]

15. I don't think it's.about veganism

It's about a homicidal nutjob killing a stranger over a dietary dispute with his mother....

[Dorian Gray]

24. The article

doesn't blame vegansim for making him deranged. it just explained the senseless fight that led to his mother calling the cops.

The whole thing was pointless.

[malaise]

8. He was on probation- had five prior arrests

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Sadly that surname looks Jamaican. He may have been born in the US - we’ll see, he’ll die in prison where there will be no vegan diet.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2022/01/22/lashawn-mcneil-harlem-nypd-shooting-jason-rivera-wilbert-mora/

[Klaralven]

11. He went to high school in Far Rockaway, NY

Today the neighborhood is a densely populated, lively and diverse community with sizable populations of immigrants from Jamaica, Guyana, Guatamala and Russia, as well as a large contingent of Orthodox Jews.

https://www.progressivemgmt.net/neighborhoods/far-rockaway/

https://www.rockawave.com/articles/everyone-is-allowed-to-be-caribbean/

[malaise]

17. That. Surname is Jamaican

For sure

[tblue37]

18. The killer is named MacNeil. Mora is the surviving officer.

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[malaise]

19. That's the Jamaican surname

[tblue37]

20. MacNeil? I would think it Scottish.

[malaise]

21. Lots of Scottish names in the English-speaking Caribbean

Trust me on that

[LoisB]

13. This is just so sad. 22 years old. I can't imagine what his family is going through.

[Dorian Gray]

22. Deranged

and senseless.

[Sympthsical]

25. His social media apparently contain violent anti-cop imagery

So, probably not too difficult to imagine what happened here. Mom calls the cops and that sets him off.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. St. Patrick's Cathedral funeral announced for NYPD Officer Jason Rivera

Metro

St. Patrick’s Cathedral funeral announced for NYPD Officer Jason Rivera

By Tina Moore and Jesse O’Neill
January 23, 2022 | 1:40am | Updated



NYPD officer Jason Rivera, who was fatally shot in the line of duty, will be mourned at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Jan. 27 and 28.
Photo Courtesy of Tomas E. Gaston

Manhattan funeral arrangements were announced Saturday for slain NYPD Officer Jason Rivera, as union leaders urged New Yorkers to attend the services to “send a message” to would-be killers in the city. ... Rivera, who was gunned down during a domestic call Friday, will be mourned at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Thursday and Friday.

A wake will be held for the 22-year-old Washington Heights native from 1-8 p.m. at the massive Midtown house of worship on Jan. 27, followed by funeral services at 9 a.m. the following day, the NYPD said.



A wake for Officer Jason Rivera is planned for Jan. 27 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan.
Getty Images

{snip}

Rivera’s partner Wilbert Mora, 27, continued to fight for his life at Harlem Hospital Saturday after the two were ambushed by paroled felon Lashawn McNeil during a domestic call.

Rivera, a married father of one, had just joined the force 14 months ago. His death sent shockwaves across New York, with Mayor Eric Adams declaring the violence “an attack on our city.”

{snip}

[Progressive Jones]

27. The perp shouldn't have been allowed to come out alive. nt