NYPD Cop Charged With Murder For Shooting Childhood Friend: AG

NEW YORK CITY — An NYPD officer was arrested on murder charges for fatally shooting his childhood friend in the head on Long Island, Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday.

Rookie officer Errick Allen, 26, stands accused of murdering Christopher Curro, 25, in Farmingdale on May 12, according to the Attorney General's office.

"We trust our police officers to protect the safety of New Yorkers, but instead, this individual allegedly betrayed that duty to end another man’s life,” James said.

“My office is committed to ensuring justice is served and that no individual is above the law.”

Curro, a pizza delivery person, and Allen were "close friends" one another from Farmingdale High School, which they both attended, according to reports.

“For a cop to do that and leave your best friend for dead ... that’s atrocious,” Curro's stepmother told the New York Daily News. “It’s unconscionable. Errick was his best friend. He grew up with Chris. These are not two strangers. They grew up with sleepovers in each other’s houses."

The Attorney General’s office investigated the shooting because it involved a cop and what may have been an unarmed man.

Allen, hired by the NYPD in 2019 and assigned to Queens' 109th Precinct, was suspended without pay for 30 days after the shooting, NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said.

The NYPD cop is expected to be arraigned Thursday afternoon.