NYPD Staten Island Shooting: Man Shot In Stable Condition, Other 'Person Of Interest' Being Interviewed

STATEN ISLAND, NY — One suspect is in custody, and a second "person of interest" was being interviewed after an NYPD-involved shooting in Staten Island early Thursday morning sent a man to the hospital in stable condition, an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

An NYPD officer and sergeant were responding to two calls of shots fired shortly after 1 a.m. and found two men at Kreischer Street and Androvette Street, police said. One man ran into the woods and the other "came from the side of a building, and he turned on them and drew a weapon," Assistant Chief Edward Delatorre, the commanding officer of Patrol Borough Staten Island, told reporters at the scene.

The two officers opened fire, hitting the man three times in the leg, once in the arm and possibly another time in a "ballistic vest" he was later discovered to be wearing, Delatorre said. The man was carrying a 9mm Glock 26 pistol, Delatorre said.

He was taken to Staten Island University Hospital North and is in stable condition.

The other man who ran into the woods, though, and was still on the loose, Delatorre said. Police recovered an AR 15 semi-automatic rifle and some shells that may have been fired in the woods, Delatorre said.

The suspect was described as a 25-year-old white male wearing a brown canvass waist-length jacket.

The NYPD are interviewing a "person of interest" related to the shooting but the spokesman said Thursday morning that person was not officially a "suspect."

The gunfire came just one night after police shot and killed two men in Brooklyn in separate incidents. One had been shooting into a nightclub in Crown Heights, police said, and the other pulled a knife on two officers in his apartment.

Here are photos from the NYPD of the two weapons recovered and the vest from the Staten Island shooting: