NYPD Officers Rush Wounded Colleague to Hospital in Cruiser

An NYPD officer was shot twice—once in the arm and once in the leg—during a call in Queens' Astoria neighborhood, and fellow officers drove him to the hospital in a cruiser.

By Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy

Source New York Daily News

Aug. 22, 2025

What to know

An NYPD officer was shot in the leg and arm Friday in Queens' Astoria neighborhood.
The officer was and rushed to Jamaica Hospital in a patrol cruiser, and his condition was not immediately known.
Details of the shooting remain under investigation, and it comes a month after Officer Didarul Islam was fatally shot in Manhattan while off duty.

An NYPD officer was struck in the arm and leg during a shooting Friday in Queens' Astoria neighborhood.

An NYPD officer was rushed to the hospital in a police cruiser Friday after he was shot in Queens, police said. The officer was shot in the leg and arm on 22nd Road near the Whitestone Expressway Service Road in Astoria at about 8:50 a.m., police sources said.

Cops at the scene rushed the shot officer to Jamaica Hospital in an NYPD patrol cruiser, the sources said. His condition was not immediately known.

Details about what led to the shooting were not immediately released.

The shooting comes about a month after Police Officer Didarul Islam was gunned down in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper by rampaging gunman Shane Tamura.

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