Eric Duprey, 30, was fleeing a sting operation in the Bronx when an officer threw a picnic cooler at him.
A man fleeing NYPD officers on a motorbike died after a sergeant threw a plastic cooler at him, causing him to crash, authorities said Wednesday. The officer has been suspended and the New York attorney general has launched an investigation into the incident., NYPD sergeant Erik Duran was part of a"plainclothes buy-and-bust operation" that was attempting to apprehend 30-year-old Eric Duprey for selling narcotics in the Bronx.
Erik DeJesus, a neighbor of Duprey's, told CBS New York that other community residents witnessed the crash and are in shock.
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