A man killed Wednesday evening a waiter and two policemen and was shot dead by another police officer after a hunt in the NY glitzy neighbourhood Greenwich Village.
The criminal entered a pizza restaurant near the New York University, asked for the menu and immediately after that shot the waiter 15 times in the back.
Two plain-clothes voluntary NY policemen, who were not armed, chased the shooter.
He killed both police officers but was put a bullet by a colleague of theirs.
The NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the accident was a terrible tragedy for the city's police.