NYPD officer and another man dead outside restaurant after apparent conflict over wife
WALLKILL, N.Y. May 11th, 2022 A New York City police officer apparently deliberately crashed into another man’s car, then shot the driver to death in a parking lot before killing himself, police said Monday.
The shooting happened at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Scotchtown, about 70 miles’ drive from New York City.
Officer Sean Armstead, 36, and Edward Wilkins, 20, were found dead of gunshot wounds, Robert McLymore of the Wallkill police said in a news release.
Armstead had been with the New York Police Department since 2011 and was assigned to a Bronx public housing complex. He was off duty on Sunday, having called in sick.
Citing police sources, the New York Daily News said Armstead tracked his wife to a La Quinta hotel where he believed she was meeting her lover. The woman and Wilkins left in separate cars, and Armstead followed the young man.
A few hundred feet from the hotel, he crashed into Wilkins’ car in the restaurant parking lot. Wilkins got out and ran; Armstead reportedly chased him and shot him at least twice, then shot himself.
Armstead’s wife arrived at the scene in the aftermath of the shooting, the Daily News said.
Wilkins resided in Wurtsboro, 15 miles from the crime scene in Scotchtown, which is part of the town of Wallkill.
The New York state attorney general’s office and the Wallkill police are investigating the shooting along with the NYPD, the Orange County sheriff’s office and investigators from the adjacent city of Middletown.
