Officer Sharjeel Waris, 25, was on the scene of a homicide that unfolded earlier in the morning in Brownsville when the alleged shooter opened a door from a first floor apartment and opened fire with a shotgun around 7:45 a.m., police said.

The incident began around 6 a.m. when police responded to reports of shots fired on Thomas S. Boyland St. near Linden Blvd. in Brownsville.

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