A New York City police detective and four children were among those wounded in separate Brooklyn shootings over a violent Fourth of July holiday weekend.New York Police Department Detective Robert Karroll of the Sex Offender Monitoring Unit was shot in the back of his ballistic vest during an encounter with an armed 18-year-old in Crown Heights early Sunday morning, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed at a news conference hours later.Karroll was taken to Kings County Hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.A second officer suffered contusions to the face and shoulder during the incident.Detectives' Endowment Association President Scott Munro denounced the spate of violence.AMERICA'S WOUNDED COPS FIND HOPE, HEALING AND SECOND CHANCE THROUGH OFFICERS WHO REFUSE TO LEAVE THEM BEHINDMembers of the NYPD crime scene unit process the scene where an NYPD officer was shot in the vest in the area of Nostrand Avenue and St.
John's Place in Brooklyn, New York, United States on July 5, 2026.(Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)"This has to stop," he said at a Sunday morning news conference.
"Three weeks ago we had a detective shot – in the same hospital.This has the stop.
Our members are out there day and night hours and hours protecting the people of the city of New York doing a job that they took an oath to take and they need to be respected and thank God this detective is going home."He sighed relief that "we're not planning a funeral today."Tisch said officers assigned to a mobile field force detail were parked in an unmarked police vehicle near Nostrand Avenue and St.Johns Place around 4:14 a.m.
ET when a person approached the car."Given the lack of body-worn camera in this incident, the circumstances of the approach are still unclear," Tisch said, adding the shooting happened "quickly and unexpectedly."MAMDANI WALKS BACK PLAN TO INCREASE NYPD HEADCOUNT FOLLOWING DSA PRESSUREBallistic damage is shown on the unmarked NYPD vehicle that officers were sitti...