Off-Duty Officer Is Shot in the Bronx

An off-duty New York police officer was shot after an argument outside a Bronx diner early Sunday, the police said.

Detectives from the Eastchester Road station house, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing, said the dispute was over a minor two-car accident outside the Pelham Bay Diner on East Gun Hill Road just before 5 a.m.

The officer was a passenger in one of the vehicles, a Nissan that was being driven by a friend. Several men were in the other vehicle, a dark Chevrolet Caprice, the police said. Tempers flared and someone from the Caprice shot the officer in the buttocks with a .25-caliber pistol before they all fled, the police said.

The officer did not have a weapon with him, and it was not clear whether he had identified himself as a police officer, the department said.

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