NEW YORK (AP) — Police Commissioner William Bratton says a retired NYPD officer working security at a trash recycling plant shot and killed a gunman who was trying to rob him and steal his car.

Bratton told reporters Tuesday the unnamed retired officer was licensed to carry the weapon he allegedly used to shoot 18-year-old Manuel Ocampo in East New York, Brooklyn.

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