Gunman ambushes and kills two New York City Police Department (NYPD) Cops.

The Associated Press(AP) reports that two uniformed New York City police (NYPD) officers that were shot inside a marked patrol car at Myrtle Avenue and Tompkins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood have died.

 The shooter, identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley walked up to two New York Police Department officers sitting inside a patrol car and opened fire Saturday afternoon, shooting both of them fatally before running into a nearby subway station, the G-train station at Myrtle and Willoughby avenues as pursuing cops closed in and committing suicide, police said.

Both officers were rushed to Woodhull hospital, where one was pronounced dead, police said. The second officer was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

The shooting comes at a time when police in New York and nationwide have been criticized by some over the circumstances surrounding the chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man who was stopped by police for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes.

The last time an NYPD officer was shot to death in the line of duty was in 2011