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<\/p>\nKINGSBRIDGE, The Bronx (WABC) — An investigation is underway after an off-duty NYPD officer shot a man in the Bronx, leaving him in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The shooting unfolded in Kingsbridge on Monday.<\/p>\n
NYPD sources told Eyewitness News that the officer involved believed that the people in a white car had stolen his vehicle.<\/p>\n
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Surveillance video shows the off-duty officer drawing and aiming his weapon at someone, then pinning the man down behind the white car.<\/p>\n
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.<\/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 not identify her, told us customers initially thought the bus blew a tire before realizing what had happened.<\/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 at the bar, on the bus, or on the street was hit with the glass. 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 30-year-old man in the car, who was shot in the head, remains in critical condition.<\/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 and has had high-profile assignments at Gracie Mansion and City Hall, sources say.<\/p>\n
The officer has been put on modified duty as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n
No charges have been filed.<\/p>\n
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