The accomplice who fled from cops after his low-life pal shot and killed Officer Peter Figoski has been caught. Three other suspects were also taken into custody overnight — two neighbors who live across the street and the alleged getaway driver. Hit the jump to see the pics.
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The triggerman’s sidekick, Kevin Santos, was arrested at 2 a.m. and will be charged with murder in the slaying of Figoski, a decorated 22-year NYPD veteran and father of four daughters, officials said.
Police were responding to a robbery in progress in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn at 2:15 a.m. Monday when one of the bandits shot Figoski in the face.
Santos, who had been grappling with Figoski’s partner, Officer Glenn Estrada, ran off when Estrada made the split-second decision to chase the man who had just killed his colleague. Estrada pursued and captured the alleged gunman, Lamont Pride, 27, several blocks away.
Police said they were initially looking for only the escaped accomplice but quickly realized more people were involved in the robbery plot.
The NYPD released surveillance video Monday of a man they were hunting for in connection with the shooting.
He was captured walking quickly past a laundermat on Chestnut St. at 225 a.m. Monday, throwing backward glances as a cop car with lights on races past.
Police said Tuesday morning the man on the tape was the suspected getaway driver, who has not yet been named, not the accomplice Santos as initially thought.
Sources said cops also became suspicious of the story told by two “concerned neighbors†living across the street.
Ariel Tejada and Nelson Morales were quick to describe the guns used in the robbery at the Pine St. home.
“We were suspicious of them. We kept them and questioned them,” a source told the Daily News.
The two neighbors are expected to be charged with murder. It is unclear what charges the getaway driver will face.
Figoski, 47, who was assigned to the 75th Precinct, died Monday morning at Jamaica Hospital Center.
