What to Know
- A Long Island woman was arrested Saturday in connection to a BB gun pellet shooting
- The 24-year-old was charged with attempted murder of a police officer and reckless endangerment
- The plainclothes officer was shot while he was driving Wednesday afternoon
A Long Island woman was arrested for allegedly shooting a plainclothes NYPD detective in the head with a BB gun while driving down a Queens street last week, causing substantial bleeding.
Tiara Ferebee was arraigned Sunday on charges of first-degree attempted assault, second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
According to a criminal complaint, detective Adam Jangel was sitting in the driver's seat of an unmarked NYPD vehicle, with his partner in the passenger seat, when they stopped at the intersection of 168th Street and Jamaica Avenue. The two officers heard a pop sound and blood started gushing from Jangel's forehead. Jangel went to a hospital, where doctors determined he had a foreign metal projectile lodged in his forehead between his skin and skull.
Prosecutors say surveillance video showed 24-year-old Ferebee in the back of a Nissan with the window open as it drove east parallel to the driver's side window of the unmarked cop car at the time the detective was hit.
Ferebee is being held on $500,000 cash bail. She is due back in court later this month, and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the charges.
It wasn't immediately clear if she had an attorney who could comment on the allegations.
