Three Men Arrested After Shootout With Police At Park And North Portland Avenues
An officer-involved shooting at Park and North Portland Avenues left one suspect arrested with a leg injury and two others on the run late Wednesday night.
Update: By 9am, the other two suspects, aged 24 and 21, had been found and arrested.
It was around 10:43pm when plainclothes police officers in an unmarked police car reportedly spotted three men in a dispute near the intersection, under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. When they turned the car around to investigate, “at least two” of the men allegedly shot at them, hitting the car multiple times and leading the cops to return fire and the suspects to flee on foot.
A .45 caliber Sar Arms firearm was recovered under the tire of a nearby vehicle, said police.
The officers — two officers and a lieutenant — were not hit, but were later treated at Methodist Hospital for tinnitus, a ringing in the ears.According to the NYPD, a search of hospitals yielded one 23-year-old suspect at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan for treatment for a gunshot wound to the leg. He was arrested.
Fort Greene residents living nearby reported hearing and seeing police officers rushing by helicopter and car to the area via Carlton Avenue and adjacent streets for over an hour after the incident.
The incident occurred just a couple of blocks away from an NYPD Patrol Borough Brooklyn North command center van, which has been parked on Myrtle Avenue in front of the Ingersoll Houses — stationed there in the aftermath of a presumably unrelated triple homicide in mid-September.We’ll update you with more information as it becomes available.