Web produced by Jennifer Matarese, Eyewitness NewsBUSHWICK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- An undercover New York City police officer has shot and killed a man during a shootout with a gun trafficker.
Police in Brooklyn say an undercover police officer is lucky to be alive, after he was cornered in a narrow entryway by two men armed with a semiautomatic weapon.
The officer shot and killed one of the suspects and the other is under arrest.
It all happened at a 3-story apartment building at 193 Knickerbocker Avenue in the Bushwick section.Police say the undercover officer was investigating illegal gun sales and was about to make a purchase from one man when another man ran down the stairs and pointed a semiautomatic weapon at the officer.
The officer fired and shot and killed the 31-year-old.
The 22-year-old who was about to sell the officer the illegal weapon grabbed the weapon from the dead man and raced upstairs to try to hide it on the roof.
He was later arrested.
The undercover officer was not hurt and no bystanders in the apartment building at the corner of Jefferson were injured.
Police are investigating whether the two suspects had planned to rob the officer.
The surviving suspect is at the 83rd precinct awaiting charges.
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