NEW YORK, NY – NYPD officers were involved in three separate shootings in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx within a seven-hour time span on Thursday.
The most recent incident occurred at a Kingsbridge neighborhood elevated subway station at West 238th Street and Broadway. Witnesses reported a man waving a gun near a crowd of people.
When police arrived, the man refused to drop the weapon and walked along a catwalk running adjacent to the subway tracks.
Officers followed, repeatedly instructing him to drop the gun, which he continued to point at them. As he neared the next station at 231st Street, another group of officers approached from the opposite direction. An officer fired a single shot, striking the man’s left hand and causing him to drop the weapon.
The weapon was later identified as an imitation firearm. The man, whose identity has not been released, was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.
The other two shootings, one in Brooklyn and another in Queens are also under investigation.