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Man Shot Trying To Rob Off-Duty NYPD Officer In Brooklyn

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- NYPD detectives on Tuesday were trying to make sense of a wild shooting on a quiet street in Park Slope, Brooklyn that involved an off-duty officer.

As CBS2's Christine Sloan reported, it was not clear late Tuesday exactly what set of the incident.

Shell casings were left all over Sixth Avenue in Park Slope following the shooting early Tuesday morinng. A bullet also pierced through the window of a brownstone being renovated.

"There is a small place where it appears to be lodged into the wall," said brownstone renovator Christopher Townley.

It was hardly what mothers strolling their little ones in the quiet neighborhood are used to seeing.

"It still scary," one woman said. "It's supposed to be a safe neighborhood."

"It's just so shocking," another said. "I can't believe that."

Police said the officer reported that and his cousin were leaving Bleachers Sports Bar on Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday when a man tried to rob them.

Investigators said the officer struggled with the man over a gun and shots were fired, CBS2's Sloan reported. The suspect then ran off.

Park Slope resident Mike Edelman said he heard the shots.

"At about 12:30 last night I was in my dining room and I heard four shots. My wife and son heard them too," Edelman said, adding he later saw a man back a white car into a dumpster. "I saw a guy get out standing in front and he ran right up this way towards Sixth Avenue and then he ran right back and got in the vehicle."

Soon after, a 32-year-old man checked himself into the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg. The man is one of two suspects police said was involved in the attempted robbery, Sloan reported.

Sources also said witnesses told police the cousin of the off-duty officer grabbed a gun from the trunk of the car, yelling, "Don't disrespect my cousin."

After the shots were fired, the off-duty officer put the gun back in the trunk, police said. The trail of bullet casings began at the bar and ended a block away in front of Edelman's home.

With so many stories, police were still trying to sort everything out late Tuesday.

The officer has been with the NYPD for five years.

Nothing was taken during the attempted robbery.

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