Editor’s Note: The New York Police Department says confusion surrounding a long-awaited arrest led officials to wrongly declare that an off-duty officer had been killed in a 1999 shooting in the Bronx. The below copy has been updated.
NEW YORK — A man wanted in the 1999 shooting of an off-duty New York Police Department officer was arrested in Florida almost two decades after the incident, and the head of the NYPD on Sunday offered his thanks to fellow law enforcement for their perseverance.
Ling, 27 years old at the time and an undercover officer, was shot in the chest and had a bullet between two vertebrae.