Nakwon Foxworth, Nostrand Cop Shooter, Charged With Attempted Murder Of Seven Police Officers

Prosecutors charged Nakwon Foxworth, the suspect who shot and wounded four police officers on April 8, with seven counts of attempted murder this morning.

Foxworth, 33, opened fire on several members of the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit in the early Sunday morning shooutout, striking four of them before taking a bullet to the belly. Police responded to the scene after the suspect allegedly brandished a gun during an argument with movers in front of his building at 3301 Nostrand Avenue, then took his pregnant girlfriend and their infant child hostage.

After police arrived on the scene, Foxworth’s girlfriend escaped with the infant. As the officers entered the apartment, Foxworth began shooting.

The four officers — Captain Al Pizzano, Detective Kenneth Ayala, Detective Michael Keenan and Officer Matthew Granahan – sustained non-life threatening wounds and have been released from the hospital.

Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes unveiled the charges today, and Foxworth was arraigned from Kings County Hospital, where he is being treated for the gun shot wound to his torso.

He is charged with:

• seven counts of attempted murder in the first degree
• attempted aggravated murder
• attempted murder in the second degree
• attempted assault in the first degree
• attempted assault in the second degree
• attempted aggravated assault upon a police officer
• assault in the first degree
• assault in the second degree
• criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree
• criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree
• menacing in the second degree
• unlawful imprisonment in the first degree
• endangering the welfare of a child

If convicted, Foxworth faces a maximum sentence of 40 years to life. He was previously released from prison in 2010 after a 10-year stint for attempted murder and selling drugs behind bars.