Sentencing is set for a man who fatally shot a New York City police officer during a foot chase in Manhattan in 2015.
(FOX)- Tyrone Howard is facing life in prison when he’s sentenced Monday in a Manhattan courtroom for the death of 33-year-old Officer Randolph Holder.
The 32-year-old Howard was convicted last month on charges including murder, robbery and weapons possession.
Holder and his partner approached Howard as he was on a stolen bicycle on an East Harlem street in October 2015. Authorities say Howard fled on foot, then pulled out a handgun and shot Holder in the head on a footbridge over the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive.
Authorities say Howard had been involved in a gunfight with drug dealers just before he was confronted by the officers.