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It happened at 8:55 p.m. at Georgia and Pitkin Avenues in Brownsville.
NYPD officers apparently spotted two men breaking into a stolen vehicle.
One suspect was taken into custody at the scene, but the other jumped into a second stolen van and drove towards them.
Two of the officers opened fire.
He was shot in the leg by a bullet that apparently went through the stolen van.
They followed after the van to Jamaica and Pennsylvania avenues where it collided with a parked police vehicle.
The 61-year-old was taken to Brookdale University Hospital for treatment.
The officers involved were taken to Jamaica Hospital for treatment and were not seriously injured.
It has been been a violent start to 2021.
At least seven people have been shot already in the city.
That includes a triple shooting outside a Queens hotel that was fatal.
A group who rented a room at the Umbrella Hotel for a New Year s Eve party got into a street dispute with another group.
A 20-year-old man died in front of the hotel on Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens just after 1:10 a.m.
A 40-year-old man and a 20-year-old man were taken to the hospital.
So far, police have not made any arrests. The investigation is ongoing. Today s fatal shooting at the Umbrella Hotel near Queens Borough Hall was a sad and troubling way to start the New Year, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said in a statement. Whoever is responsible for this heinous crime must swiftly be brought to justice. It is also time for the Umbrella Hotel, which has already been cited for numerous public safety violations, to be shut down. This hotel is a public nuisance that has no place in Kew Gardens
NYC records its first homicide of 2021 as one person is killed and two injured in shooting at a Queens hotel just ONE HOUR after the ball dropped in Time s Square - after 2020 marked the bloodiest year since 2011 with 447 murders
The triple shooting took place outside the Umbrella Hotel on Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens just after 1 a.m. Friday
One man, 20, was shot in the body and was pronounced dead in hospital
Another 20-year-old male and a 40-year-old male were also shot
They are in Queens General Hospital in non-critical conditions
An NYPD spokesperson told DailyMail.com there had been a dispute between the victims and a group of people before the shooting
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