A plainclothes police officer was struck in a shootout with a suspect spotted in the Soundview section of the Bronx Tuesday night as officers investigated a past shooting.
The 31-year-old officer was shot after members of the Gun Violence Suppression Division saw the man on Lafayette Avenue near White Plains Road just before 10:30 p.m.
The suspect ran as police pulled over. Officers gave chase, and he turned and fired four times, striking the officer once in the lower back, just below his protective vest.
The officer fired once, but the 24-year-old suspect was not hit.
"Within minutes, within seconds, they were in a gunfight," Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said.
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