NEW YORK - New York police said on Saturday they had arrested television and film actor Lillo Brancato on suspicion of carrying out a burglary in which a police officer was shot and killed.
Brancato, 29, appeared several times as a mobster in the hit television show "The Sopranos," and in several films including "A Bronx Tale" opposite Robert De Niro.
He was arrested in June for heroin possession.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters that Daniel Enchautegui, a police officer of three years, was shot in the chest early on Saturday after investigating the sound of breaking glass in an unoccupied house in the Bronx.
Before the officer died, he shot an unarmed Brancato and his armed accomplice, who have both been arrested but remain in hospital, Kelly said.
- REUTERS
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