NEW YORK (AP) -- The 34-year-old driver of a car has been shot and wounded by a New York City police officer. The man was wounded in the left leg and has been taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition. The officer suffered minor injuries and is at another local hospital.
Police say the officer was on foot patrol at East 228th Street and White Plains Road at about 1 a.m. when he approached two men in a car.
Police say that as he walked up to talk to them, the car tried to speed away, dragging the officer a short distance. The officer began shooting, hitting the driver.
Investigators later found drugs in the car.
The officer was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with minor injuries.
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N.Y. officer dragged by car of fleeing suspect
By Sarah Garland The News York Sun
NEW YORK — A police officer was injured after being dragged down a street in the Bronx by a car driven by a drug suspect early yesterday. The officer managed to fire his gun and hit the driver of the car in the leg even as he was being pulled along by the car. Police said the officer, a sevenyear veteran, was on foot patrol in the Eastchester section of the Bronx when he noticed two men smoking what he believed was marijuana in a 1996 Pontiac sedan. As he approached the car near East 228th Street and White Plains Road, the driver of the car drove off, dragging the officer along with him for a short distance. A police van then chased the Pontiac containing the two suspects to East 233rd Street and Bronx River Parkway. Police said the suspects were tossing bags of marijuana and cocaine from the car as they fled. When they later apprehended the suspects after they stopped the car, police said they found more marijuana and cocaine in the vehicle. The suspects were said to be in their 30s and to live in Yonkers. The officer is recovering from minor injuries at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. The driver of the car is recovering from the gunshot wound in his left leg at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx.
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