Two veteran detectives, Daniel Rivera and William Gonzalez (both 41 years old), were grazed by gunfire early this morning. One detective was wounded in the forehead and the other in the leg, during a shootout in the East Tremont section of the Bronx at Webster Ave. and 188th St. around 5:30 a.m. The two cops were in the process of serving an arrest warrant to 20-year-old Jermaine Taylor for questioning related to a Bronx bodega shooting. In the course of serving that warrant, gunfire was exchanged, the detectives were grazed, and Taylor was seriously wounded.
According to one report, Taylor attempted to evade police by removing an air-conditioning unit from a second story window and jumping into an alley, breaking his pelvis. He then fired a number of shots at police before attempting to climb a fence. Police returned fire with 13 shots, and it is unclear whether Taylor was hit, although WCBS is saying that he was shot.
