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An off-duty rookie police officer was shot and wounded during an attempted carjacking on a Queens street Tuesday night, police said.
The 22-year-old officer was attacked about 10:20 p.m. on Beach Channel Drive and Beach 62nd St. in Arverne, police said.
Two men approached his car and tapped on his window with a gun, and when the officer got out, one of the men fired several shots, hitting him in the shoulder, police said. The men fled, but were quickly captured by nearby officers a few blocks away. Police recovered a gun.
The wounded officer’s fellow cops rushed him in an NYPD vehicle to Jamaica Hospital. He was in stable condition and expected to recover, officials said.
This young man was on his way to work, on his way to protect New Yorkers from criminals like the two who were arrested today,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said a press conference at Jamaica Hospital early Wednesday.
One of the suspects fired a single shot on the uniformed, on-duty sergeant and officer who arrested them, but didn’t strike the two cops, police said. Instead, the bullet punched a hole in the rear bumper of the cops’ unmarked vehicle
Neither responding officer returned fire, police officials said.
Mayor Adams praised the officers’ restraint, and decried “the over-proliferation of guns” and people “ready to use them on individuals in blue uniforms or blue jeans.”
“They don’t care. They don’t care, and to see something like this happen repeatedly in our city is unacceptable,” Adams said.
The off-duty officer is the sixth member of the NYPD shot so far in 2022 — wounded just days after the Jan. 21 murder of Officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora, whose funeral was set for Wednesday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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The 22-year-old officer was attacked about 10:20 p.m. on Beach Channel Drive and Beach 62nd St. in Arverne, police said.
Two men approached his car and tapped on his window with a gun, and when the officer got out, one of the men fired several shots, hitting him in the shoulder, police said. The men fled, but were quickly captured by nearby officers a few blocks away. Police recovered a gun.
The wounded officer’s fellow cops rushed him in an NYPD vehicle to Jamaica Hospital. He was in stable condition and expected to recover, officials said.
This young man was on his way to work, on his way to protect New Yorkers from criminals like the two who were arrested today,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said a press conference at Jamaica Hospital early Wednesday.
One of the suspects fired a single shot on the uniformed, on-duty sergeant and officer who arrested them, but didn’t strike the two cops, police said. Instead, the bullet punched a hole in the rear bumper of the cops’ unmarked vehicle
Neither responding officer returned fire, police officials said.
Mayor Adams praised the officers’ restraint, and decried “the over-proliferation of guns” and people “ready to use them on individuals in blue uniforms or blue jeans.”
“They don’t care. They don’t care, and to see something like this happen repeatedly in our city is unacceptable,” Adams said.
The off-duty officer is the sixth member of the NYPD shot so far in 2022 — wounded just days after the Jan. 21 murder of Officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora, whose funeral was set for Wednesday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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