{"id":344590,"date":"2026-09-12T01:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344590\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:48:12","slug":"nypd-officer-accidentally-shoots-gun-on-subway-station-striking-another-cop-and-bystander-with-bullet-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344590\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD officer accidentally shoots gun on subway station, striking another cop and bystander with bullet fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NYPD officer accidentally fired her service weapon in a Brooklyn subway station Thursday afternoon \u2014 and bullet fragments struck another cop and a bystander, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>The accidental discharge occured at about 4:40 p.m. inside the Kingston-Throop Avenue station in Bedford-Stuyvesant and sent all three people involved in the shooting to the hospital, the NYPD said. <\/p>\n<p>A male officer and a 34-year-old woman inside in the station were struck by bullet fragments, police said. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40781799\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/scene-nypd-officer-accidentally-discharged-140523110.jpg\" alt=\"A brown, yellow, and white tiled subway sign for &quot;Kingston-Throop Av.&quot; with an arrow pointing to &quot;Throop Ave.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-40781799\"\/>Bullet fragments struck an on-duty NYPD officer and a straphanger after a uniformed cop accidentally fired her service weapon inside a Brooklyn subway station on Thursday afternoon, authorities said. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40781806\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/scene-nypd-officer-accidentally-discharged-140522522.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd of people gathered at the Booth N119 ticket booth inside the Kingston-Throop Aves subway station.\" class=\"wp-image-40781806\"\/>The NYPD told The Post that a male officer and a 34-year-old civilian were shot inside the Kingston-Throop station in Crown Heights around 4:45 p.m. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>The officer whose gun went off and the cop and bystander who were hit were hospitalized in stable condition. All three have since been released. <\/p>\n<p>Both officers were placed on modified duty and the NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division is probing the shooting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYPD officer accidentally fired her service weapon in a Brooklyn subway station Thursday afternoon \u2014 and bullet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,102,57,9,24,63,242,615,58],"class_list":["post-344590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crown-heights","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-police-shootings","tag-subway","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344590","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=344590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}