NEW YORK — An argument at a block party escalated into gunfire, killing one man and wounding several others, including a police officer hit by a colleague, authorities said.
The gunfire erupted at about 3 a.m. yesterday in upper Manhattan, where two men had been arguing, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said....
Five officers responded to the scene, and the gunman fired at them, Kelly said. Four of the five officers fired back in a barrage of more than three dozen shots. The gunman was hit multiple times and hospitalized in critical but stable condition, police said.
Two of the officers were shot. Officer Michael Tedeschi was hit in the chest, but the bullet, which came from another officer’s gun, struck his bullet-resistant vest.
When asked how one officer could have ended up in another’s line of fire, Paul Browne, police spokesman, attributed it to the confusion of the event....
Or they are just blasting away not knowing who they are shooting at.
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