NYPD officer shot in Brooklyn

NEW YORK -- A New York City police officer was shot in the left shoulder Tuesday night and two suspects were taken into custody, a police spokesman said.

New York Police Department Sgt. Carlos Nieves said on Twitter the shooting happened in the Bushwick neighborhood in Brooklyn. He said two suspects were taken into custody and police were looking for a third person.

The officer was hospitalized in stable condition and was "conscious, alert and talking," Nieves said.

The wounded officer was in plain clothes at the time, and was on duty, sources told CBS New York.

Police returned fire on one of suspects, who was believed to have fired the gun in the incident, sources said. The suspect was shot multiple times in the legs and hand and was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center, sources told CBS New York.

The suspect was also expected to survive. A second person was also taken into custody at the scene and was not shot by police, sources said. A third suspect, who was wearing a green hat, was still on the loose as of 7:35 p.m., sources said.

A spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio said the officer was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. De Blasio, who was traveling back to New York City after attending the funeral of Police Commissioner William Bratton's father, was expected to hold a news conference at the hospital later Tuesday night.

A second Narcotics officer was also taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center with ringing in the ears, police said.

Bri Brown, a woman who works at a bar near the shooting scene, told The New York Post she went outside when she saw people running past the bar.

"I heard a guy screaming 'I've been shot, I've been shot! Call an officer, I've been shot!'" Brown said.

Suzanne King, 24, a nanny who lives on the corner, said she heard a sound like a crack.

"I didn't think anything of it until (the area) was stormed by cops," King told the Post. "Then I got scared. I saw one person on a stretcher get taken away by an ambulance."

The shooting marks the sixth time since January a New York City police officer has been shot in the line of duty.

Last month, Officers Andrew Yurkiw and William Reddin were shot during a confrontation with a gunman in Brooklyn. Yurkiw was shot in his bullet-resistant vest and Reddin was struck in the hip.

A little more than two weeks before those two officers were shot, Officers Diara Cruz and Patrick Espeut were shot and wounded while on patrol in a public housing stairwell in the Bronx.

The gunman killed himself soon afterward, police said. In January, Officer Sherrod Stuart was wounded in the ankle by a police bullet as another officer exchanged gunfire with a suspect in a Bronx street brawl.

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