Hammer attack injuring Police Officer Lauren O’Rourke in Midtown New York during arrest Wednesday, May 13, 2015

On Wednesday, two officers spotted the man in Midtown. He could be the hammer attacker, but they wanted to speak with him to be sure. The man, identified by the police as David Baril, saw them, too.
He stopped at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 37th Street, and as the officers closed in, he pulled a hammer, red with the dried blood of previous attacks, police officials said. He began swinging wildly at one of the officers, Lauren O’Rourke, 27, striking her as she backpedaled, the police said.
The scene on Eighth Avenue between 37th and 39th Streets in Midtown, near where an officer shot a hammer-wielding man.
As they spilled into the intersection and a beam of late-morning sunlight, her partner, Officer Geraldo Casaigne, drew his gun and fired four times, hitting Mr. Baril in the right arm, the torso and the “head area,” officials said. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center, where he was in critical condition on Wednesday evening.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/nyregion/officer-shoots-man-in-midtown-manhattan.html?_r=0