NJ Man Who Shot Cops In Bed-Stuy Gets Life, DA Says

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — A New Jersey man who shot at police after a wild car chase through Brooklyn was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced Wednesday.

Frederick Funes, 37, was sentenced in Brooklyn Supreme Court after pleading guilty in November to shooting at police officers and purposefully crashing into a cop car, said prosecutors.

Police began chasing the New Jersey man on Feb. 20, 2016, when they heard Funes fire his weapon near the corner of Quincy Street and Malcolm X Boulevard at about 3:20 a.m., prosecutors said.

Funes sped past a marked police car and pointed his silver Magnum .357 revolver at two police officers, Jorge Zorrilla and Ayanna Shine, who were sitting inside it and began to chase him, said prosecutors.

Funes raced through the streets of Brooklyn, pointing the Magnum at a uniformed MTA employee, three NYPD detectives and a lieutenant sitting inside an unmarked police car with its sirens on, prosecutors said.

The chase ended when Funes drove the wrong way up Lexington Avenue then crashed his car into a marked police vehicle with three cops inside it, according to prosecutors.

Funes then whipped out the Magnum and shot at police officers, hitting one in his bulletproof vest and another in the hip, who then shot him multiple times, prosecutors said.

Funes, of Egg Harbor, had served time for attempting to take an NYPD officer's gun in 2007 and had a lengthy rap sheet that includes 11 arrests in Chicago, according to a DNAinfo report.

“This defendant tried to kill multiple police officers and endangered many other innocent people while on a rampage on the streets of Brooklyn," said Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.

"This case again underscores the dangers our police officers face every day to keep us all safe.”

Photo of the Magnum found by police courtesy of the NYPD