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A veteran police officer died Monday after he was shot in the face at the scene of a home robbery in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, in what Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called a “horrible, depraved criminal attack.”

The officer, Peter Figoski, 47, of West Babylon, N.Y., was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center but died shortly after 7 a.m. One suspect, Lamont Pride, 27, of Brooklyn, has been arrested, and another was being sought.

The shooting happened around 2:20 a.m. at 25 Pine Street on a quiet block of two- and three-story row houses near the Queens border. Mr. Bloomberg said that Officer Figoski, who had worked for the Police Department for 22 years, and his partner, Glenn Estrada, had interrupted a home invasion where “two perpetrators were attacking the person who lived in the downstairs apartment, apparently looking for money.”

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The police had been summoned to the home by a 911 call of a possible burglary, according to the police. The owner of 25 Pine Street, who lives on the first and second floors, reported hearing what he was thought was a break-in in a basement apartment, where a 25-year-old man lived, according to Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly.

Two officers who arrived at the home first found a robbery victim and a neighbor in the basement apartment, Mr. Kelly said. Mr. Pride and another suspect had tried to flee out the back of the home, but were unable and hid in a side room, as the two officers walked past them.

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They then tried to leave through the front door, and the police said that is when Mr. Pride shot Officer Figoski, who was at the bottom of the stairs that led from the street to the basement apartment.

The officer’s partner, Officer Estrada, was outside the home struggling with the second suspect. When he heard the gunshot, he let go of the suspect and chased after Mr. Pride, capturing him several blocks away at the corner of Fulton and Chestnut Streets.

The police said they found a silver 9-millimeter Ruger semiautomatic pistol under a parked car near where Mr. Pride was arrested and said it appeared that one round had been discharged. Mr. Pride has five prior arrests and was wanted in North Carolina on a warrant for aggravated assault, Mr. Kelly said.

The tenant of the basement apartment, according to Mr. Kelly, said he heard the two suspects pounding on his door and then going inside. The tenant said the two men claimed to be police officers and demanded money and jewelry. They knocked the tenant down, and one of the men hit him in the head with a gun.

The tenant said the assailants stole a cheap watch and $700 in cash. The tenant was being treated at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center.

Officer Figoski, a father of four daughters and the brother of a retired city police officer, was shot with an illegal semiautomatic weapon, Mr. Bloomberg said. He had made over 200 arrests, nearly half of them felony arrests, Mr. Kelly said. He worked his entire career at the 75th Precinct, one of the city’s most crime-ridden.

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At the station house, on Sutter Avenue in East New York, grieving officers hung black and purple bunting over the entrance Monday morning. Police officers, detectives and marshals from all across the city were descending on the precinct to lend their services. They were not with the 75th usually, one marshal said, “but we are today.”

Just before noon behind Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, more than 100 officers formed a “walkout” — a human barricade to partly block the view of onlookers — as Officer Figoski’s body was taken out and loaded into an ambulance to be taken to the medical examiner’s office.

Some of the officer’s relatives arrived. The gathered officers saluted. The ambulance drove off. Afterward, many of the officers hugged and patted each other on the back. Teary-eyed relatives were loaded into a black van that followed the ambulance.

“This is not something you ever get used to,” said Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. “There has to be guns taken off the street.”

“If this killer could have,” Mr. Lynch added, “he would have continued shooting. But it only took one round and it took one great life.”

Officer Figoski’s partner, Officer Estrada, was treated at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center for a sprained shoulder.

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On Pine Street, Stephanie Vargas, 25, said her daughter’s father rented an upstairs room in the building where the home invasion occurred. She said several other people lived in building. Ms. Vargas said she had been trying to reach her child’s father all morning. “They’re not letting me talk to him,” she said. “He’s not answering his phone. They’re not letting me go see him.”

Vivian Sanchez, 55, who has been living on Pine Street across the street from the home where the shooting took place, said she was awakened by the sound of a gunshot early Monday.

“I just heard a gunshot and that was it,” Ms. Sanchez said. “I knew somebody got shot. People get shot all the time.”

Ms. Sanchez said she had lived in the neighborhood for seven years. “I’m always inside the house,” she said. “I don’t know what goes on at night. I’m too scared. I got robbed and mugged already. I never come outside. It’s not safe.”

One man who lives near the shooting scene and who refused to provide his name described wakening to the sound of police activity early Monday. “They were running back and forth looking for him with their sirens on,’’ the man said, referring to the suspect responsible for shooting Officer Figoski.

Sigfrido Santana, 61, who has lived in the neighborhood since 1979, described the area surrounding the shooting scene as “relatively quiet.”

“You still got your thugs,” he said, “but that’s everywhere you go.’’

The last New York City police officer killed in the line of duty was Alain Schaberger, 42, a 10-year-veteran, who died on March 13 after responding to a report of a domestic violence episode in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Officer Schaberger was helping lead a suspect out of a brownstone when, the police said, the suspect pushed him over a railing causing him to fall nine feet to a basement landing. His neck was broken.

The last officer fatally shot in the line of duty was Russel Timoshenko, 23, during a traffic stop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on July 9, 2007.

Noah Rosenberg, Michael Wilson, Tim Stelloh and Liz Robbins contributed reporting.