{"id":344555,"date":"2026-09-12T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344555\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:08:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-2-officers-placed-on-modified-duty-after-gun-accidentally-goes-off-inside-brooklyn-subway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344555\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 2 Officers Placed On Modified Duty After Gun Accidentally Goes Off Inside Brooklyn Subway Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two officers were placed on modified duty after one of their guns <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2026\/09\/11\/officers-gun-accidentally-goes-off-inside-kingston-throop-subway-station\/5AJRlpZOiFiDv0WZm5McrZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accidentally went off<\/a> inside a subway station in Brooklyn, according to an NYPD spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the officers were on duty at the Kingston-Throop Avenues subway station when gunfire rang out. A bystander and an officer were wounded during the commotion.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The investigation unfolded just before 4:45 p.m. Thursday on the southbound platform for the A\/C lines.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The bystander, a 34-year-old woman, suffered minor injuries, according to police. The NYPD did not specify exactly how she was hurt during the incident. The woman was treated at a nearby hospital and has since been released.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say a bullet fragment struck an officer who was standing nearby. That officer &#8211; and the one who was carrying the firearm &#8211; were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the NYPD, both officers have been released &#8211; and disciplined.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Their names were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division is leading the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two officers were placed on modified duty after one of their guns accidentally went off inside a subway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-344555","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\/344555","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=344555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}