The incident occurred
at 10:55 p.m., according to police -- around the time officers are changing
shifts.
The officer's right
calf was grazed by the bullet.
He was taken to
Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, where he was treated and
released.
The officer has yet
to be identified.
In April 2011, a
police officer accidentally shot himself in the hand while he was cleaning his
gun in his Arden Heights home.
The officer didn't
realize a bullet was still loaded into the weapon, an NYPD source told the
Advance at the time. The gun went off, and the bullet went through his left
palm just below the ring finger, the source said.