Police Shoot, Wound Man With Gun In Crown Heights: NYPD

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A plainclothes NYPD cop shot and hit a man in Crown Heights early Friday morning who was running toward officers carrying a small handgun, police said.

Three plainclothes officers were sitting in an unmarked car near St. Johns Place and Rochester Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Friday when they heard gunshots coming from Rochester Avenue between Park Place and Sterling Place, NYPD Assistant Chief Jeffrey B. Maddrey said at the scene.

They raced to the scene and saw a man running south on Rochester, who was being followed by another man holding a gun, Maddrey said. They saw the man with the gun fire at the man he was chasing, Maddrey said.

The man was running toward the officers, and one of them told him to stop and drop the weapon, Maddrey said. The man didn't, so one of the officers fired at least two shots at him, hitting him once in the left thigh, Maddrey said.

The man kept running and threw his gun on the ground, but eventually collapsed on St. Marks Place, Maddrey said.

Officers found a black .25 caliber hand gun, pictured above, in the same place where they saw him throw his gun down, Maddrey said. The man was apprehended and taken to Brookdale Hospital, Maddrey said.

None of the officers were wounded, but they were taken to Cobble Hill Hospital for observation, Maddrey said.

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