NYPD officer released from hospital after being shot in the foot

A police officer was released from the hospital hours after being shot in the foot in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning, according to the NYPD.

The officer, identified by the NYPD press office as Orlando Adorno, had been shot while responding to a domestic violence call in the morning. He had been brought to Kings County Hospital and was released in the afternoon.

After wounding the officer, the shooter, Raheem Joye, 41, was chased by several police officers and wounded in the thigh during a gunfight with those officers blocks away, according to James Essig, the NYPD's chief of detectives. Joye is in custody.

The episode was the 10th shooting of a police officer this year, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.

She and Essig spoke at the mayor's side at the hospital, after the mayor and commissioner met with the officer.

Before the shooting, Essig said, the officers had gone to Gates Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvestant neighborhood at about 8:50 a.m., to answer a domestic violence call, in which a man had been accused of damaging a woman's wall and refusing to leave an apartment.

The officers, from the 79th Precinct, were in the process of arresting the man for the wall damage when he opened fire.

"When they went to cuff him, a shot rings out," Essig said.

By Matthew Chayes

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Matthew Chayes, a Newsday reporter since 2007, covers New York City.