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Jul 9, 2007 6:35 pm US/Eastern

Several Guns Found Near Scene Of Cop Shootings

Young Officer Sits In Grave Condition At Kings County

Kelly: Brazen Attackers Still At Large

CBS 2's Magee Hickey and Tamsen Fadal contributed to this report.
BROOKLYN (CBS) ― On Monday night a 23-year-old New York City police officer was in grave condition, his partner in stable condition after an astonishingly brazen shooting several hours earlier in Brooklyn.

The summer sun rose over Brooklyn to a patrol car stopped. Lights still flashing behind the yellow crime scene tape.
The cops who rode in it already at the hospital.

From an explosion of gunfire that came from a stolen SUV. The sound of it etched in memories that will not soon fade.

"I just heard pow, pow, pow so I duck in the trash," one witness said. "I lifted my head and saw both officers down."

Later in the day, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said the suspects in this attack were still at large.

It all started about 2:30 a.m. Monday incongruously in front of the closed Little Red Riding Hood Day Care Center in Crown Heights.

The two cops weren't responding to a call. Instincts may have told them to check the plates of the SUV. Then their computer told them it was stolen. They stopped the vehicle, not knowing the vicious attack was just seconds away.

Hit twice in the face, Officer Russel Timoshenko went down as he approached the driver's side of the vehicle.
His partner, Herman Yan, was hit when he tried to help.

Detectives found that same vehicle Monday morning ditched a few blocks away. Surveillance cameras caught an image of three men running, but it was too grainy for an ID.

Investigators found three guns in the ally -- a .45 and two 9-millimeters, one of them a Tec-9.

The BMW had been stolen from a Five Towns Mitsubishi in Nassau County. The investigation immediately focused on car thief suspects in nearby Queens.

In the meantime, a young cop lies gravely injured in the hospital.

"There is nothing we can say that will help him," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "It's now in the hands of the good doctors at Kings County Hospital and in the hands of God."

Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call 1-800-577-TIPS or the Cop Shot Hotline at 1-800-COP-SHOT.

Stay with CBS 2 and WCBSTV.com for the latest on this developing story.

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