NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A video posted online shows NYPD Officer Brian Mulkeen singing along with his partner an hour before he was killed in by friendly fire in the Bronx on Sunday.
FDNY firefighter Bryan Mayhon posted the video and tribute to his late friend on his Facebook page, saying: "Myself driving, Mulkeen in my passenger seat, @robwish sitting in the back making fun of us and videoing. This video was taken in the last hour of Brian Mulkeens life. Little did we know that we were driving into a shootout that would end tragically. I wish I knew that this was the last song we would sing together. The last time we would be 98 together. The last gun we would grab together. Watch over us up on those country roads, I know your home♡"
Mulkeen was patrolling the streets around the Edenwald Houses at 12:30 a.m. as part of a unit investigating potential gang activity, Chief of Department Terence Monahan said. The Edenwald Houses have seen an increase in gang activity and shootings, according to Monahan.
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Mulkeen and his partner tried to apprehend a man who had fled questioning, and a hand-to-hand struggle on the ground ensued, Monahan said.
As the men wrestled, Mulkeen's body camera recorded him saying his final words: "He's reaching for it! He's reaching for it!"
Five responding officers fired at the 27-year-old man, who was struck and pronounced dead at the scene.
Police identified the suspect as Antonio Lavance Williams from Binghamton, New York. He had three previous arrests in New York City, including two felonies and a misdemeanor, the New York Post reported.
"This is a tragic case of friendly fire," said NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill. Mulkeen was hit with two of 10 bullets fired by his partners during the chaotic and violent struggle.
Mulkeen had served nearly seven years with the department and worked out of the 47th precinct. He lived in Yorktown Heights with his girlfriend, an NYPD police officer in the Bronx's 44th precinct.
"We lost a hero this evening," Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a glum news conference outside Jacobi Medical Center on Sunday.