NEW YORK, USA – New York police say that an ex-convict shot and killed a Jamaican man and a police officer during a wild rampage on a busy highway on Tuesday.

Police said Darrell Fuller, who served five years in jail for attempted murder in 2004, gunned down Raymond Facey, 52, and a Nassau County, Long Island, police officer on the Cross Island Parkway on the Nassau County-Queens, New York corridor.

After killing Arthur Lopez, 29, an eight-year veteran with the Nassau County Police Department, police said Fuller, 33, then shot Facey, a married man with four children, in the head before hijacking his car. 

Police and relatives said Facey, who migrated from Jamaica 28 years ago, was speaking on his cellular phone with his daughter Daliah when Fuller shot him, at point blank range, once in the head.

“(Facey) was talking to his daughter on the phone,” Facey’s cousin, Flynn Brown told reporters. “He said, ‘Someone is chasing me’ and that’s the last thing she heard”.

Facey’s brother-in-law, Joslyn Cameron, said Facey, a truck driver, was talking to his daughter about his plans to travel home for Christmas.

“They were talking about getting cheap tickets. His daughter asked him, who is trying to get in your car? She heard him make that frightened sound: ‘Ahhhh!,” Cameron said.

Police said Fuller shot Lopez, who was not wearing a bulletproof vest, after he and another Nassau County officer approached him about an alleged hit-and-run accident a few minute before.  

“He lost his life to a cold-blooded murderer,” Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano told a press conference, referring to Lopez. “One could only wonder how an animal like this was roaming the streets with his rap sheet”.

Police said Fuller was cornered on Tuesday night in a van with allegedly self-inflicted wounds to his neck. He was taken to the Jamaica hospital in Queens for treatment.