One man was critically injured during a shooting incident with an off-duty NYPD officer in the Bronx on Monday, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy girl call me, she say, \u2018we got shot.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018What?\u2019\u201d said Ada Gomez, the manager of The Bronx Public. \u201cAnd she told me, \u2018What do I do?\u2019 I said, \u2018call 911.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
One man was critically injured during a shooting incident with an off-duty NYPD officer in the Bronx on Monday, according to the NYPD
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Police said the shooting happened shortly after 9 p.m. on West 231st Street near Albany Crescent in Kingsbridge
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The shooting stems from an interaction involving an off-duty NYPD officer, according to authorities
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The NYPD said the 30-year-old man who was shot in the head was transported to the hospital by private means in critical condition<\/p>\n
Police said the shooting happened shortly after 9 p.m. on West 231st Street near Albany Crescent in Kingsbridge. A surveillance video showed a man getting out of a dark-colored car, pointing a gun at another man behind a white car.<\/p>\n
Another angle of the same footage showed the two men on the ground in front of a white car.<\/p>\n
The shooting stems from an interaction involving an off-duty NYPD officer, according to authorities. Sources said the officer believed the individuals were stealing his vehicle, and he fired the shot that struck one man in the head.<\/p>\n
Abdullah Almahmoud works at a pizzeria just feet away from the shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople told me, \u2018people are shooting,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cSomebody is shooting here. This is very sad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very, very scared. We are very scared,\u201d Almahmoud added.<\/p>\n
The NYPD said the 30-year-old man who was shot in the head was transported to the hospital by private means in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Employees of The Bronx Public said that a gunshot also pierced the window of the restaurant while people were inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was terrified until I got here, when I don\u2019t know if someone was hurting,\u201d Gomez said. \u201cThat was my concern. That nobody could hurt them. The customers. They are fine. And my staff is safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The restaurant manager believes the officer should not have fired his gun.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know you train to be a police officer, but you\u2019re a human being. You know you can hurt somebody else,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Police are investigating and the off-duty officer has been suspended without pay, according to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man was critically injured during a shooting incident with an off-duty NYPD officer in the Bronx on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[10015,387,25,128,303,9,24,12,26,63,308,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-167889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-crime","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nia-clark","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}