{"id":166647,"date":"2025-08-22T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166647\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:09:11","slug":"nypd-officer-shot-in-arm-and-leg-in-whitestone-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166647\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD officer shot in arm and leg in Whitestone, Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>QUEENS<\/strong> &#8211; An NYPD officer has been shot in Queens, authorities confirmed early Friday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The shooting happened around 8:52 a.m. near 143-01 22nd Road in Whitestone. Witnesses said cops appeared to be responding to a carjacking.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cop-shot.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Officials say the officer, a male, is conscious and alert. He was shot in both the arm and leg. Police are on the scene investigating what led up to the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The alleged shooter is in custody and has a lengthy rap sheet, <strong>FOX 5 NY<\/strong> has learned.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/screenshot-2025-08-22-094021.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">SkyFOX flew over scene where an officer was shot. <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">A witness told <strong>FOX 5 NY<\/strong> that the &#8220;screaming of this victim&#8221; woke him up. He said he initially believed police were responding to a carjacking involving a man whose car had been stolen. The witness said he then heard loud noises he thought were gunshots.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">NYC Mayor Eric Adams has been briefed and is headed to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This report is based on information from police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/queens\/whitestone\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whitestone<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS &#8211; An NYPD officer has been shot in Queens, authorities confirmed early Friday morning.\u00a0 What we know:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6082,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,95769],"class_list":{"0":"post-166647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-whitestone"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}