Twenty-five-year-old NYPD Officer Brian Moore died Monday morning after fighting for his life following an attack by an ex-con. You may have heard that Officer Moore was shot Saturday evening after confronting, with his partner in their patrol car, a THUG on the street whom the two officers said they saw “adjusting an object in his waistband.” When they asked the man—whom we now know is Demetrius Blackwell—what the object was, he pulled a pistol from his waistband and shot into the cruiser, hitting Moore in the cheek, but missing his partner. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital where surgery was performed, and then placed in a medically induced coma. More, from the Daily News on this morning’s tragic news:

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton arrived at the hospital after word of Moore’s death leaked out.

Earlier, a distraught woman and two grim-faced officers bearing a dress uniform and a pair of polished shoes were seen at the hospital.

Moore’s death means that Demetrius Blackwell will likely face a murder charge for gunning down the plainclothes police officer in Queens Village, the sources said.

Blackwell, a 35-year-old self-described “hell-raiser” [is] a cousin of former Giants cornerback Kory Blackwell…