Two NYPD officers shot in South Bronx, 1 suspect dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound, others in custody — as de Blasio gives State of the City address nearby

Two NYPD officers were shot Thursday night and a suspect was killed at a NYCHA housing complex in the Bronx.

The cops were part of a drug-related investigation at the Melrose Houses, on E. 156th St., near Courtlandt Ave., when one was shot in the torso and the other was hit in the face shortly after encountering two suspects in a stairwell around 8 p.m., officials said.

"I was coming into my building and there were mad gunshots," Kendrick Joseph, 18, told the Daily News. "Pow! Pow! Pow! I don't know how many."

The armed suspect ran into a seventh floor apartment and shot himself, First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker said from a Lincoln Hospital news conference Thursday night. A semi-automatic handgun and a shotgun were recovered from the apartment, where several other people were at the time of the shooting, Tucker said. The suspect knew someone in the apartment, who let him into the home, police said.

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