OSI is currently conducting an investigation into the death of Christopher Ferguson who died on December 5, 2024 following an encounter with members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in Brooklyn.
OSI has released videos from body-worn cameras that officers were equipped with during the incident.
Ferguson, who was wanted for murder, was fatally shot and his girlfriend wounded when police opened fire after a wild chase through the streets of Brooklyn.
A 3-year-old baby girl in the car was miraculously unharmed.
In addition to being sought for the slaying of a 21-year-old man in East New York, Christopher Ferguson, 21, was riding shotgun in a vehicle spotted fleeing the Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, where a ShotSpotter device recorded gunfire around 3 p.m. that day, cops said.
Officers picked up the suspect’s tail after spotting the black Honda with Mississippi plates on Fulton St. and Washington Ave. in Clinton Hill.
The pursuing cops were trying to keep a low profile as they called for backup when the Honda’s driver, Ferguson’s 23-year-old girlfriend — the mother of the baby in the car — suddenly accelerated at a high rate of speed, cops said.
The Honda was spotted running multiple red lights as it fled east into Bedford Stuyvesant before crashing into a black Mercedes double parked on Utica Ave. near Park Place.
Police in hot pursuit exited their vehicles with their weapons drawn and ordered Ferguson and his girlfriend to get out of the vehicle with their hands up.
As officers approached the vehicle, Ferguson tried getting out of the vehicle with a pistol, but the Honda’s passenger-side door was wedged against the double-parked car.
Trapped inside the car, Ferguson pointed his weapon at police, who fired as many as 19 shots.
One officer ordered his colleagues to cease fire after noticing Ferguson’s girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter in the back seat of the Honda.
Ferguson’s girlfriend tried to make a run for it and was nabbed after sustaining two gunshot wounds to her right thigh, cops said.
Ferguson, the woman and her daughter were taken to Kings County Hospital, where the murder suspect died.
Police said they recovered a pistol with an extended 30-round magazine.