NEW YORK (AP) - Two New York police officers shot and wounded a man who they said pointed a gun at them in East Harlem early Sunday, authorities said.
The NYPD said the man was listed in critical but stable condition at New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center after the shooting around 2 a.m. No identification has been released.
Authorities said the uniformed officers responded to a 911 call of a large disorderly group and a man with a firearm in the Washington Houses. The officers were questioning a man when he fled, and they saw he had a gun, police said.
They gave chase, and the man turned and pointed a .22-caliber revolver at the officers who then fired at him, authorities said.
The officers were treated for ringing in the ears at St. Luke’s Hospital. A gun was recovered at the scene.
The incident was the third police-involved shooting in recent days.
On Sunday night, Police say a man suspected of stabbing a woman in a domestic incident in Brooklyn was fatally shot by two officers after he lunged at them with scissors. The woman was hospitalized in stable condition. The unidentified suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Friday, four officers shot and killed a man suspected of taking drugs and cash from a Manhattan pharmacy after the man raised his weapon at them, police said.
The suspect, identified by police as 45-year-old Scott Kato, was shot while alone in a car that got stuck in traffic beneath an underpass of the FDR Drive at 96th Street following the robbery some 30 blocks away.
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