Detective Robert Karroll suffered bruising to his back after an armed man approached his unmarked patrol car in Crown Heights — on a New York holiday weekend that had already seen eight people injured in a shooting in Coney Island, according to CBS News.
A New York police detective was shot in the back during a confrontation with an armed man in Brooklyn in the early hours of Sunday. He was wearing a bulletproof vest at the time and suffered bruising to his back. An 18-year-old man was subsequently taken into custody, CBS News reported.
The shooting in Crown Heights came only hours after eight people were injured in a separate shooting in Coney Island, according to CBS News. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the officers involved in the Brooklyn incident were part of a wider operation to reduce violence over the holiday period, and had only just come off a 12-hour shift working the Sail4th 250 event in Lower Manhattan.
Speaking at a news conference broadcast by CBS News, Tisch said four officers travelling in an unmarked vehicle were approached by the armed man at around 4.14am, on the west side of Nostrand Avenue near its junction with St John’s Place.
She said cameras had picked up the same man five minutes earlier, a block further north, “with a firearm in his hand.” None of the officers were wearing body cameras, Tisch said, so it was not yet clear exactly how the confrontation had begun. She confirmed, however, that the officers had left their vehicle and tried to approach him.
Both the front and rear glass of the unmarked car sustained ballistic damage, according to Tisch, and three of the four officers discharged their weapons. The man then fled on foot before officers caught up with him at the junction of Rogers Avenue and Union Street, where he was subdued with a stun gun. A handgun was recovered at the scene.
The injured detective was named as Robert Karroll, who serves with the NYPD’s Sex Offender Monitoring Unit. A second officer was also hurt in the incident, sustaining bruising to the face and shoulder, officials said.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani also paid tribute to Karroll, noting that he is a husband and father of three children. The mayor said he was thankful the outcome had not been worse, and thanked Karroll and fellow officers for their work during what had been a demanding holiday weekend for the police fo
