FROM THE FINAL REPORT of Captain Edward X. Delaney, NYPD-EXD-1SEP1968.
“We were still receiving intermittent fire from the fourth-floor window from what, I judged, was a single gunman. I instructed my men not to return his fire. Discipline, I should say at this time, under these difficult and aggravating circumstances was excellent. At approximately three minutes after the start of the action, two men dashed from the rear service entrance, climbed aboard the truck, and began to back the truck from the service alley at high speed.
“This was, of course, a move of desperation, doomed to failure as I had arranged my cordon of squad cars to forestall such a move. As the truck backed, one man leaned from the window and fired a revolver at us as the other drove. We returned his fire.
“The truck crashed into car George Fourteen and stopped there. In the crash, Officer Simon Legrange, Shield 67935429, suffered a broken leg, and Officer Marvin Finkelstein, Shield 45670985, was slightly wounded in the upper arm by a bullet fired by the gunman in the truck. Up to this time, this was the extent of our casualties.
“When I ordered, ‘Cease fire!’, we determined that the gunman in the truck was dead (later certified as Edward J. Brodsky) and the driver of the truck (later certified as William K. Brodsky) suffered a broken shoulder as a result of the crash.”