An off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer was shot in the face and wounded during a botched robbery in an upper Manhattan park late Saturday, cops said.
The officer was sitting in Fort Washington Park by W. 178th St. when a pair of robbers pulled up on a moped around 11:50 p.m., cops said.
Video released on the Department of Homeland Security’s X.com page shows the suspects pull up to the victim as he’s sitting on a rock. A man in a white shirt gets off the back of the moped and approaches the officer, gun in hand. After a brief fight, he fires a shot and appears to duck out of view by a bush while the officer aims his own weapon.
Cops said the officer returned fire, striking one of the fleeing robbers, who later arrived at a nearby hospital, police sources said.
Medics took the 42-year-old officer to Harlem Hospital in stable condition.
Federal Homeland Security officials identified the man as Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, a Dominican Republic citizen with a lengthy rap sheet who’s in the country illegally.
“RE ENTERED and RELEASED under Biden— on April 4, 2023 the United States Border Patrol apprehended him at/near San Luis, AZ,” reads a post on Homeland Security’s X.com page.
Police sources said he’s also wanted on a warrant in Massachusetts in a kidnapping and weapons possession case, was arrested in the Bronx on Oct. 1, 2024 on a felony assault charge, and is wanted for a robbery and a stabbing in New York.
The second suspect remains at large.