UPDATE: No, Police Officers Were Not Targets in Brooklyn Street Shooting, NYPD Says

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — Shots fired from a window of a dark sedan near 401 E. 23rd St. at Ditmas Avenue late Tuesday night are not, in fact, believed to have targeted two uniformed officers in the near vicinity, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) said the next morning.

Police had told reporters in the hours following the shooting that the two officers were directly targeted. The New York Times headline read: "Shots Fired at Two Officers in Brooklyn, Police Say."

Two shots were fired near the officers around 10:30 p.m.

Almost immediately afterward, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, a union representing active and retired NYPD sergeants, posted the following allegations to Facebook.

Tonight in the confines of the 70th precinct at the corner of Ditmas avenue and E 23rd street. Two NYPD officers in uniform were walking their patrol post when a dark colored sedan with tinted windows slowly approached them made a statement about getting them and proceeded to fire shots at the officers. The vehicle was occupied by (4) four male blacks, fled the scene and was subsequently dumped in the confines of the 67th precinct. Perps are still not apprehended.

By the next morning, a spokesman for the NYPD told Patch:

The sergeants' union, however, is not amending its version of events.

"Although the media is reporting the police were not the intended targets, we have strong information and reason to believe that they were," the union posted to Facebook around 8:45 a.m. "We are confirming all information posted here and truly hope that our posting is inaccurate."

No one was injured in the shooting.

Police still had not located the black sedan by 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning but were on the lookout, an NYPD spokesman said.

The New York Daily News reported Wednesday that "what was thought to be a bullet hole near where the cops were standing turned out to be a previously drilled hole, likely for a cable television wire."

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officials told the Daily News that the NYPD had requested city bridges be shut down while cops searched for the black Nissan — but that the MTA denied the request.

Police have been on high alert across the country after five officers were murdered at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas and three more were shot dead in Louisiana over the past couple weeks, in reaction to multiple recent police killings of unarmed black men.

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