NEW YORK - The NYPD released dramatic videos of the moments that two police officers were shot while responding to a 911 call in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in Brooklyn.
Both officers were expected to survive. The gunman was taken to a local hospital for a mental evaluation.The shooting took place on Sunday at about 9 p.m.
on the second floor at 42 Hawthorne Street.When police officers were walking up the stairs of the apartment building, a man emerged from an apartment and opened fire on the cops, police said.
The officers fired back but did not strike the gunman, the NYPD said.One officer was hit in the chest and the other was grazed in the leg, police said.