Off-duty rookie NYPD cop allegedly shot his 'childhood friend' during a fight on Long Island before fleeing the scene

An off-duty New York Police Department (NYPD) officer fatally shot his 'childhood friend' during a dispute in Nassau County, according to local authorities.

Officers with the Nassau County Police Department responded to the scene in front of a Farmingdale home off Langdon Road at 8.05pm on Tuesday to investigate the homicide.  

There they found a deceased 25-year-old man, whose identity has not been released by authorities. Nassau homicide detectives are investigating, according to the police release. 

Speaking at an unrelated event in Oceanside, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said that the altercation escalated from a verbal disagreement to a physical altercation. 

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Officers with the Nassau County Police Department responded to the scene in front of a Farmingdale home off Langdon Road at 8.05pm on Tuesday to investigate the homicide

While he did not name the officer, a neighbor and police sources identified the NYPD cop as 26-year-old Errick Allen.  

'There was an altercation between two gentlemen; it started over a conversation they were having,' Ryder said, according to Newsday. 'They met up. A struggle ensued. During that struggle, a weapon was produced and the victim was shot and killed. The person that was involved in that struggle, fighting also with that other individual, was a New York City police officer.' 

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Neighbors and police sources identified the NYPD cop as 26-year-old Errick Allen. Allen graduated from the academy a few months ago and was assigned to the 109th Precinct in Flushing, Queens

Ryder described the victim and the alleged gunmen as being 'childhood friends' who 'grew up together.' 

'It's just an altercation between two individuals and the gun was produced and the individual who was shot was shot in the head and he died last night and the other individual is being discussed with homicide,' said Ryder.

During Mayor de Blasio's Wednesday coronavirus press briefing, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said that the department was informed of the shooting almost immediately.

'An NYPD officer discharged a firearm,' Shea said during the press conference. 'That case is being investigated by the Nassau County District Attorney's office and the Nassau County Police.

He is an NYPD officer that discharged his firearm, ' Shea continued. 'As a result of that discharged, the individual was struck in the head and killed and it is an ongoing and very early part of that investigation.

'We were conferred with almost immediately last night and that is an active investigation.' 

Allen graduated from the academy a few months ago and was assigned to the 109th Precinct in Flushing, Queens, sources told the New York Daily News. 

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Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said that the altercation escalated from a verbal disagreement to a physical altercation

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While he did not name the officer, neighbor and police sources identified the NYPD cop as 26-year-old Errick Allen. Allen is said to have fled the scene before returning later with his father

The rookie cop left the scene and returned home, where he told his father what happened. The pair returned to the scene, soon after. 

But by then, cops had been called by a passing motorist who saw the victim's body in the street.  

'Somebody was driving by and saw the dead body in the street and got out because he thought it was a joke,' neighbor Mary Fanelli, said. 'But then he realized what it was and called 911. Apparently the guy that shot him left the scene and came back.'

 The 62-year-old said that Allen was grilled by police once he returned to the scene. 

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A passing motorist saw the body and called police to the scene

'He was sitting on the curb and they were all around him,' she recalled. 'Apparently it was his gun. The other guy was not armed.'

Fanelli said that the two were 'best friends' who graduated from Farmingdale High School.  

'We didn't believe it, and it just makes no sense,' a woman who identified herself as the victim's stepmother, said, KABC reports. 

'So when they told us who it was, it made even less sense to us. It just, we don't understand it...I don't understand anything. I don't know. And the more I hear, and I read in the newspaper about the gunshots and the locations of the gunshots, it's horrendous. It's not a self-defense. It's like an execution.' 

Allen has been suspended without pay for 30 days following the shooting, according to NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan.  Authorities are trying to determine whether he should be charged.