Off-duty officers, who’d just finished work for the day and were leaving the 46th precinct, heard the shots and shouted at the man to drop his weapon, police say.
An off-duty Fresno Police officer, identified as 23-year veteran Thao Xiong, saw the motorcyclist for unknown reasons lose control and crash into the canal at about 7:30 p.m.
The officer drew his weapon and officials say he gave commands for the armed man to drop his gun. A short time later, the officer fired his weapon, striking the man.
An off-duty NYPD officer was grazed in the head by a bullet Monday when her Long Island home was sprayed with more than 30 rounds — apparently intended for her sister’s alleged gang member boyfriend, police and sources said.
The officer was stopped at a traffic light while off-duty in his personal vehicle at about 12:21 p.m. when the suspects pulled up behind and alongside the vehicle and fired shots inside, wounding the officer in the lower torso, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said.
The shooting was reported about 2:20 a.m. at Set Nightclub. According to officials, the three deputies were working additional jobs when they were shot.
An off-duty North Reading, MA, police officer is being credited with saving lives from a house fire.
The incident happened at a nightclub in Gastonia at 11 p.m. Gastonia police say officers were working off-duty at the nightclub when they attempted to de-escalate a situation.
Sgt. Sean Rios, 47, was reportedly on his way to his shift at George Bush Intercontinental Airport when for reasons unknown he ended up on the feeder road in a gunfight with at least one suspect.
An officer with the Chicago Police Department was off duty in her personally owned vehicle when she was approached by an assailant armed with a gun, who demanded that she exit the car.
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