Cop Held on $500,000 Bail in Off-Duty Road Rage Shooting Death in Brooklyn

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Off-duty NYPD cop Wayne Isaacs is accused of killing Delrawn Small in a fit of road rage Aug. 4
The officer will also have to forfeit his U.S. and Guyanses passports and any firearms he owns as his case moves forward
His lawyer maintains his innocence

The off-duty NYPD cop who allegedly shot and killed a driver in a fit of road-rage in Brooklyn this summer was held on $500,000 bail at his arraignment on murder charges Tuesday.

Officer Wayne Isaacs will also have to forfeit his U.S. and Guyanses passports and any firearms he owns as his case moves forward.

A Brooklyn grand jury Monday indicted 37-year-old Isaacs in the July 4 shooting, following an investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Isaacs allegedly shot and killed Delrawn Small from his car on July 4 on an East New York Street after Small got out of his vehicle and approached Isaacs at a stoplight. Small believed Isaacs had cut him off, his girlfriend said.

Isaacs' lawyer maintained his client's innocence in court Tuesday, claiming when Small approached Issacs' car he "wasn't coming to give him best wishes and salutations."

Prosecutors argued the shooting was a "brutal, deliberate act" with no legal justification.

Isaacs is the first cop to be charged by Schneiderman under his role as special prosecutor for all police killings of civilians in New York, according to The New York Post, which first reported the indictment. Schneiderman was assigned as special prosecutor by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the wake of Eric Garner's chokehold death.

Initially, police said Small had punched Isaacs before the gunfire erupted. But a security camera video that surfaced later cast doubt on that account by appearing to show Small getting shot the instant he reached the officer's car.