UPDATES: NYPD Officer Shot in Botched Brooklyn Robbery

Updates at the bottom with a detailed description of the shooting from the NYPD.

A bullet traveled through a police officer’s arm and grazed his torso in a shooting Tuesday night at 737 Bradford Street, in the east Brooklyn neighborhood of New Lots, according to police.

The shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m.

An NYPD spokesperson says the officer was off-duty at the time of the 75th precinct shooting, and was transported to the hospital in stable condition.

“He’s not likely to die,” police say.

The off-duty officer is being treated at Brookdale Hospital in Brownsville.

Insiders identified the wounded policeman to the New York Post as 33-year-old Tramaine Oxley.

Oxley had been sitting in a white Range Rover with his cousin when a dark BMW pulled behind them. One or two armed men then exited the BMW and approached their vehicle before attempting to open the door, sources told The Post.

The cop identified himself as an officer, pulled his own weapon and was wounded in an exchange of gunfire, the sources said.

A nearby resident writes on Twitter that he heard a series of gunshots, almost like firecrackers, coming from the area.

“Saw that rover fly by,” writes Patch commenter Sara Pouche.

NYPD investigators are still searching for the shooting suspect or suspects.

Some news reports had originally claimed the officer drove himself to the hospital, but the Post writes that Oxley’s cousin, who had been with him in the car, took the driver’s seat and rushed him to Brookdale.

A photo taken by Twitter user Andy Mai of the scene outside Brookdale shows the Range Rover parked askew, its doors flung open, near the emergency-room entrance.

Oxley is reportedly an eight-year veteran of the NYPD.

A 2011 article in the New York Daily News paints Oxley as a community-oriented policeman helping steer neighborhood kids on the right path.

At the time, he was one of 10 officers are assigned to the Juvenile Robbery Intervention Program (JRIP) in Brownsville, “which helps housing project teens busted for robbery get job training, social services and educational opportunities,” reported the Daily News.

UPDATE: The NYPD has provided the following details about the Tuesday-night shooting.

On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at approximately 10:18 p.m., a 33-year-old male off-duty New York City Police Officer, along with three other males were seated in a vehicle which was parked on Linden Boulevard, in the vicinity of Bradford Avenue within the confines of the 75 Precinct. Two suspects, one armed with a gun, approached the vehicle and opened it’s driver side door. The suspects then removed an undetermined amount of property from the victims and fled the location on foot. The victims attempted to flee but encountered the suspects again on Linden Boulevard at Bradford Avenue. The suspects fired upon the victims striking the off-duty police officer who returned fire from his service weapon. The suspects fled the location and the officer was removed to Brookdale Hospital where he is being treated for a gunshot wound to the left forearm and a graze wound to the torso.

ABC7 reports late Wednesday night that a 22-year-old suspect has been taken into custody in Queens.

“He was matched to a fingerprint on the officer’s white Range Rover,” says the news station. “He has 24 prior arrests. No charges have been filed and the investigation is ongoing.”