Shootout in East River docks

November 1991, 8:25 AM, Manhattan, New York. A raid against the East Coast drug traffic has turned into a bloody shootout in the East River docks, in the Downer Manhattan when two patrols of the NYPD and the DEA intervened during the unloading of a large drug shipment from Miami. A NYPD officer died and other two were injuried. All the suspects were killed, except one who escaped in a brown/grey sedan, according to witnesses.

Police is looking for a grey Dodge Aspen with New York plates, and a bullet hole in the back glass.

This strike was part of the a joint operation against drug traffic on the East Coast between Miami and New York, of the DEA and those cities police departments, in another attempt to finish with the Crack Epidemic, that is ravaging, especially, the poorest areas of the american cities

In the picture, officer A. Montana, from the Miami Vice Squad, arriving to the scene.