Off-duty NYPD officer shot while sleeping in car between shifts, authorities say
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The officer is expected to make a full recovery.
An off-duty New York Police Department officer is in stable condition after he was struck in the head by a bullet while sleeping in his car between shifts, authorities said.
The officer was resting in his personal car, which was parked in the lot of a Manhattan police precinct, after finishing a late-night shift at a New Year's Eve event in Central Park, according to NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell.
While reclined in the driver's seat, a bullet came through the rear passenger window, striking him in the temple, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig.
The officer awoke at 6:15 a.m. in pain to find his rear window shattered, according to Sewell. An on-duty officer rendered aid and the injured officer was transported to a nearby hospital, where he underwent surgery and had bullet fragments removed from his wound, the commissioner said.