Overview
- The shooting occurred around 9:10–9:15 p.m. on March 16 on West 231st Street near Albany Crescent in Kingsbridge.
- A 30-year-old man was shot in the head and taken by private means to NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, where he remains in critical condition.
- Authorities identified the officer as 44-year-old Jonathan Baez, assigned to the NYPD Intelligence Division with prior Gracie Mansion detail.
- Department officials said Baez was stripped of his badge and gun and suspended without pay as the Force Investigation Division examines the incident.
- NYPD sources say the off-duty officer had tracked a vehicle reported stolen from his family, and video shows the bullet piercing the driver’s-side window before a nearby bar’s window was struck.