Two NYPD officers and one civilian were shot in Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon and are expected to survive, according to police.
The NYPD said the officers were responding to a 911 call from a woman complaining of a head injury from being “physically assaulted” by her son inside an apartment at Saratoga Avenue and Bergen Street around 3:30 p.m., according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
The four officers who responded tried to arrest the 39-year-old man when he grabbed a gun from one of the officers, Kenny said. The man shot one officer in the left hand and another in the left thigh, according to Kenny. Police then shot the man several times, Kenny said.
He was in “critical but stable condition” as of Tuesday evening, according to Kenny.
Police said there were no charges against the man as of Tuesday evening.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, Kenny described the man’s history of assault. He was incarcerated at Sing Sing prison for 11 years starting in 2004 for attempted assault, according to state prison records. Kenny added that he was arrested for violating a restraining order in February 2023 and for a domestic assault in January 2023.
Andre Garvin, 24, said he watched as one police officer walked out of the building where the incident occurred holding his bloody hand.
“This was by far the craziest thing I’ve seen in this neighborhood,” Garvin said.
Jeremiah Mitchell, 15, said he was hanging out with his friends on the fourth floor of an apartment building near where the shooting took place.
“It sounded like pots banging [below us],” Michell said. “I heard some lady telling her kids to get in the room … That’s when I skedaddled out of the building.”
There were 700 more victims of domestic violence in 2023 versus 2022, according to NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri. NYPD officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora were shot and killed in January 2022 while responding to a domestic violence call in Harlem.
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