By Associated Press - Sunday, August 19, 2018

NEW YORK (AP) - Police say a man in a wheelchair who was firing at a building during a Brooklyn party was shot by an off-duty police officer.

The 30-year-old handicapped man is expected to survive and is being treated at Brookdale Hospital on Sunday. He was hit once in the hip.

The gunshots rang out at about 4 a.m. Sunday in the East Flatbush neighborhood.



Police are investigating the incident. They did not release the man’s name.

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