A Brooklyn man was shot by cops after he got into an unmarked police vehicle and swiped a sergeant’s gun, law enforcement said.
The 25-year-old suspect, whose identity has not been released, hoped into the car through the rear passenger door around 12:45 a.m. Sunday while the sergeant and an officer from the Detective Bureau Division stopped at a red light on Avenue D and Nostrand Avenue, in East Flatbush, cops said.
The sergeant who was sitting in the front passenger seat fought with the man before he pulled her firearm and discharged a round inside the car, cops said.
The suspect was not struck by the bullet and instead grabbed the sergeant’s gun and ran out of the car, cops said.
A uniformed officer on foot patrol nearby responded to the incident along with two other officers in a patrol car who surrounded the man and ordered him to drop his weapon, cops said.
A fury of gunfire followed. The suspect fired the stolen sergeant’s gun and the officer on foot patrol returned fire along with the one officer from the patrol car and the officer driving the unmarked police car, police said.
The suspect was shot at least three times in the torso and lower leg, cops said.
He is being treated at Kings County Hospital and is in critical but stable condition, cops said.
None of the officers were shot in the gunfire.
Charges for the suspect are pending, cops said. It was not immediately clear why he entered the unmarked car first place or whether he was armed at the time.
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