KINGSBRIDGE, The Bronx (WABC) — An investigation is underway after an off-duty NYPD officer shot a man in the Bronx, leaving him in critical condition.
The shooting unfolded in Kingsbridge on Monday.
NYPD sources told Eyewitness News that the officer involved believed that the people in a white car had stolen his vehicle.
Surveillance video shows the off-duty officer drawing and aiming his weapon at someone, then pinning the man down behind the white car.
A single shot was fired. The bullet pierced the driver’s side window of the car and hit the 30-year-old man inside. Its trajectory continued, narrowly missing a BX10 bus on its way to Norwood, and finally shattering the window of a bar across the street on West 231st Street and Albany Crescent.
The bar fixed the window swiftly ahead of the St. Patrick’s Day rush, but employees and customers were still reeling from the incident.
The manager on duty, who asked that Eyewitness News not identify her, told us customers initially thought the bus blew a tire before realizing what had happened.
“Everybody was like ‘oh my god, that’s a shot,'” she said.
She later learned the person who fired it was an off-duty officer, and says he should have known better.
“I don’t think he was thinking clearly, because to shoot like that, that’s not really professional or a responsible person,” the manager said.
Luckily no one at the bar, on the bus, or on the street was hit with the glass. She says this could have been so much worse.
“You’ve got the person down, why do you have to shoot the car?” she said.
The 30-year-old man in the car, who was shot in the head, remains in critical condition.
Someone brought him to the hospital, possibly in that car.
The off-duty officer works in the NYPD’s Intelligence Division and has had high-profile assignments at Gracie Mansion and City Hall, sources say.
The officer has been put on modified duty as the investigation continues.
No charges have been filed.
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