KINGSBRIDGE, The Bronx (WABC) — An investigation is underway into a shooting by an off-duty NYPD officer Monday night in the Bronx that left one man in critical condition.
Video, which captured the incident, shows the off-duty officer drawing and aiming his weapon at someone, then pinning the man down behind a white car.
Sources told Eyewitness News the officer’s own car had been stolen, and he believed the people in the white car were responsible, including the man he was holding down.
This surveillance video shows a single shot fired, piercing the driver’s side window of the car before the vehicle takes off, just missing a Bx10 bus on its way to Norwood, and hitting the window of a bar across the street on West 231st Street and Albany Crescent.
The bar already got the window fixed, in time for St. Patrick’s Day.
The manager on duty, who asked that Eyewitness News to not identify her, told us customers thought the bus blew a tire, until the window shattered.
“Everybody was like ‘oh my god, that’s a shot,'” she said.
She later learned the person who fired it was an off-duty officer, and says he should have known better.
“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.
Luckily, no one was hit with the glass, inside or outside, or on the bus. She says this could have been so much worse.
“You’ve got the person down, why do you have to shoot to the car?” she said.
The person shot in the car is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. He’s 30 years old.
Someone brought him to the hospital, possibly in that car.
The off-duty officer works in the NYPD’s Intelligence Division, according to sources, and has been placed on modified duty.
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