Police Officer Shot Three Times While Responding To Brooklyn Shooting
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The bulletproof vest worn by the officer struck by a suspect in Brooklyn late Wednesday.
NYPD
A police officer is hospitalized after being shot three times in Brooklyn while responding to a shooting late Wednesday night. This comes as shootings are on the rise across the city.
The incident unfolded at 11:11 p.m. after ShotSpotter, the NYPD's technology that detects gunfire, was activated near the intersection of Madison Street and Broadway near the Bushwick/Stuyvesant Heights border, according to NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea at a news briefing early Thursday morning. Two uniformed officers and a sergeant in an unmarked car were headed to the scene when they found a bleeding man as he was walking on Macon Street and Howard Avenue, several blocks from the incident.