NYPD Officer Fatally Shot in Her Patrol Car in the Bronx

An NYPD officer was shot and killed early Wednesday morning in what NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill is calling an "assassination."

#NYPD PO Miosotis Familia has been assassinated in an unprovoked attack on cops assigned to keep NYers safe. Keep her family in your prayers pic.twitter.com/yhRB7H5bvi

— Commissioner O'Neill (@NYPDONeill) July 5, 2017

Officials say 48-year-old Miosotis Familia was in a patrol car with her partner in the Fordham Heights neighborhood of the Bronx when a man suddenly opened fire on her.

"She was sitting in the vehicle, and he came up and fired a round into the vehicle," O'Neill said. "So I don't know if anything else could be more unprovoked than that."

The 34-year-old suspect, Alexander Bonds, was shot and killed by police as he fled the scene.

Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the 12-year NYPD veteran, saying she died doing her duty as an officer.

"She was on duty serving this city," the mayor said, "protecting people, doing what she believed in and doing the job that she loved."

Another person, believed to be a bystander, was shot. They were taken to a hospital, where they're now in stable condition.

The shooting was reminiscent of another unprovoked attack on police. Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were in a patrol car in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in December of 2014 when they were shot by a man who then killed himself.

D.J. Hess, who says he's spent decades in Fordham Heights, described violence as the norm. "You live with it," he told WNYC. "It's not like we got money to move to suburbia, you know what I'm saying? This is life around here."