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<\/p>\nAn investigation is underway into a shooting by an off-duty NYPD officer Monday night in the Bronx that left one man in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Video shows the off-duty officer drawing and aiming his weapon at someone, then pinning the man down behind a white car.<\/p>\n
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NYPD sources told Eyewitness News that the officer believed the people in this white car had stolen his own vehicle.<\/p>\n
This surveillance video shows the moment the 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.<\/p>\n
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The bar fixed the window swiftly ahead of the St. Patrick’s Day rush, but employees and customers were still reeling from the incident.<\/p>\n
The manager on duty, who asked that Eyewitness News to not identify her, told us customers thought the bus blew a tire, until the window shattered.<\/p>\n
“Everybody was like ‘oh my god, that’s a shot,'” she said.<\/p>\n
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She later learned the person who fired it was an off-duty officer, and says he should have known better.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Luckily, no one was hit with the glass, inside or outside, or on the bus. She says this could have been so much worse.<\/p>\n
“You’ve got the person down, why do you have to shoot the car?” she said.<\/p>\n
The person shot in the car is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. He’s 30 years old.<\/p>\n
Someone brought him to the hospital, possibly in that car.<\/p>\n
The off-duty officer works in the NYPD’s Intelligence Division, according to sources, and has been placed on modified duty.<\/p>\n
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