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2nd Suspect In Custody In Shooting Of Off-Duty NYPD Cop

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police have taken a second suspect into custody in connection with the shooting of an off-duty NYPD officer Tuesday night in Brooklyn, police said.

One person was taken into custody late Wednesday, and the second suspect was in custody Thursday, police confirmed to CBS2.

No charges have been filed.

The officer, identified as Tramaine Oxley, was recovering Wednesday after being wounded in Brooklyn as he sat as a passenger in an SUV with members of his family.

Police said the confrontation began around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday along a residential block of Bradford Street near the intersection of Linden Boulevard in East New York.

Oxley had just left a basketball tournament at a nearby park when, police said, two men came up to the family's Range Rover and threatened them at gunpoint.

"Right now, it looks like it's just a straight-up robbery," NYPD Chief of Department James O'Neill said Wednesday.

Investigators said the Range Rover's driver tried to make a U-turn on Linden in an attempt to get away. At the same time, the suspects were said to be in the middle of the street. One suspect began firing and the officer responded by firing four rounds, police said.

Oxley was shot in the right arm and suffered a graze wound to the torso, police said. His cousin drove him to Brookdale Hospital, where he was in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries.

He is an eight-year veteran of the NYPD and works as a housing cop, 1010 WINS' Glenn Schuck reported.

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