{"id":288340,"date":"2026-07-06T18:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288340\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:39:45","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nypd-detective-shot-in-crown-heights-was-result-of-friendly-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288340\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nypd Detective Shot In Crown Heights Was Result Of Friendly Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NYPD says that Detective Robert Karroll, who was injured during an early morning incident in Crown Heights Sunday, was wounded as a result of friendly fire.<\/p>\n

Officials say that just after 4 a.m., an 18\u2011year\u2011old man was seen on Nostrand Avenue displaying a gun – at one point at a man outside a deli. <\/p>\n

A short time later, he allegedly fired at a passing Uber, hitting the vehicle. The driver and the passenger were not injured.<\/p>\n

Moments later, the man apparently approached an unmarked NYPD vehicle with the gun visible in his hand.<\/p>\n

Officers opened fire at the man, and Detective Karroll was shot in the back of his bulletproof vest<\/a>, which police now confirm appears to be friendly fire. <\/p>\n

Karroll suffered bruising and is expected to fully recover at Kings County Hospital, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. <\/p>\n

The man, who was not struck by the bullets, ran from the scene, leading to a foot chase, that ended on Union Street and Rogers Avenue. Officers tased the man and placed him under arrest. <\/p>\n

The man dropped the gun during the chase, which was later recovered by police. <\/p>\n

A second officer also suffered bruising as a result of the incident. <\/p>\n

Both officers had been reassigned to the area as part of the NYPD\u2019s July 4 violence\u2011reduction plan, following duty at the Sail 250 event in lower Manhattan, according to Tisch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD says that Detective Robert Karroll, who was injured during an early morning incident in Crown Heights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-288340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288340","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=288340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}