UPDATE: Brooklyn Police Officer Shoots 20-Year-Old Armed With BB Gun, Cops Say

A Daisy PowerLine 415 BB gun was recovered at the scene, cops say. Photo courtesy of the NYPD

A plainclothes NYPD detective shot a 20-year-old male in the right arm and the torso Sunday evening when the young man, armed with a BB gun, tried to rob him near the Bed-Stuy YMCA in Brooklyn, police say.

(The victim was originally reported to be 16 years old, then 18 years old. But the NYPD updated his age to 20 as the night wore on.)

The police narrative is that the detective was one of three NYPD officers from the 88th Precinct who were investigating a past robbery at Monroe Street and Bedford Avenue — in the 79th Precinct — around 6:40 p.m.

“One of the detectives was approached by three male suspects, who attempted to rob him at gunpoint,” a police spokesman told Patch. “That’s when the [officer’s] gun was discharged.”

The 20-year-old who was shot had pointed his BB gun at the officer, according to the NYPD.

The young man’s Daisy PowerLine 415 BB gun was recovered at the scene, a police spokesman told Patch.

The victim was being treated Sunday evening (while in custody) at Kings County Hospital in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. The NYPD reported his condition as stable and his wounds as “non-life-threatening.”

Two suspects were apprehended after the alleged mugging attempt, police said: the young man who was shot and another 16-year-old boy.

The third suspect fled the scene, police said, and was still on the loose late Sunday night.

NYPD officials told reporters at the scene that the trio was running a Craigslist scam in which they posted apartment rentals, then robbed interested parties who came to check out the fake units.