View full size The NYPD has released this photo of the 9 mm Smith and Wesson handgun sources say Michael Walker pointed at two officers in Port Richmond Saturday night. NYPD photo
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. –
The 28-year-old man shot and wounded by police after he pointed a gun at two officers Saturday night is a repeat, violent felon who had been out of prison for just four months, according to law enforcement sources.
Sources identify the man, who was a suspect in a home invasion robbery, as Michael Walker, 28.
Walker has 14 prior arrests on his record, sources said; public records show he was conditionally released to parole on Oct. 3, after serving roughly four years of a five-year prison sentence for second-degree assault. Records show he also served another two years and five months behind bars for a second-degree assault and felony drug possession conviction in 2004. Continue reading →