Suspected cop shooter surrenders in Queens

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Police say a man suspected of shooting an NYPD sergeant in the legs last month has surrendered to authorities.

Police say 24-year John Thomas, of Queens, was taken into custody by detectives while accompanied by his lawyer. It happened at about 7 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of a Pep Boys store in Queens.

NYPD Sergeant Craig Bier, 44, was shot in both legs while working with an anti-gang unit in the Jamaica section of Queens the night of August 8. Authorities say a Ruger .09-mm pistol was recovered behind a building on 107th Avenue, not far from where Bier was shot while chasing the suspect.

The 15-year veteran was hospitalized in stable condition and released a few days later.

The manhunt for Thomas went on for more than a month after police found his apartment keys at the scene and his fingerprints on the ammo clip of the gun used in the shooting.

Authorities searched his home in a Queens housing project and hundreds of addresses across five states.

Thomas is charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

(The Associated Press contributed to this article)

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Mom suspected of killing little girl

  Eyewitness NewsBEDFORD-STUYVESANT (WABC) -- Homicide detectives say it appears a young girl was stabbed to death at the hands of her mother inside an apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

The two-and-a-half year-old girl, who was found bleeding in the arms of her rambling, incoherent mother, had been stabbed in the jaw and head inside a Putnam Avenue apartment just after 4:00 Friday morning.

Investigators said she may been choked as well. There were strangulation marks around her neck, they said.

Cathryn Nwegbo was rushed to Woodhull Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Authorities said the child's troubled mother, 29 year old Brandis Nwegbo, blamed the death on demons and God not being there to help.

She was undergoing psychiatric evaluation.

Authorities went to the family's home early Friday after getting a report that someone might be trying to jump off the roof.

They went first to the roof, but saw no one and noticed a trail of blood that led them to a lower floor apartment. Inside, they found the girl and her mother.

The apartment was in disarray, a fish tank was broken nearby.

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Five Dead in Suspected Murder-Suicide

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