Killing of Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu

On December 20, 2014, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu – two on-duty New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers – were shot and killed by Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, United States. Brinsley then fled into the New York City Subway, where he killed himself.