NEW YORK — Mayor Mamdani presented the NYPD Medal of Honor to Detective Brett Boller on Monday, June 9, 2026, at One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan. Boller and Police Officer Rock received recognition for their intervention in a 2023 shooting incident on a city bus in Queens.

Devin Spraggins, the suspect in the 2023 bus incident, argued with another passenger over a seat before the shooting. Spraggins shot Boller in the abdomen during the incident. According to court documents, the gunshot shattered Boller's hip and pierced his femoral artery.

Rock returned fire at the attacker, causing the attacker to flee. Rock performed life-saving medical measures on Boller immediately after the shooting.

He said, "It's been a long road." "We were young, we were still in field training at the time. The bus driver flagged us down, and the door was open, and it kind of just led into a foot pursuit, and it ended in me getting shot and him saving my life." Boller said.

Boller said, "It's a new normal, but it could have been so much worse." He said, "I think today is a celebration of how far I've come, how far we've come, and all the people who helped us get here, because it was definitely a long road, physically, emotionally, for us." Boller said, "I'm just very lucky that we got put together that day, because it wasn't like by choice yet at that point."