By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 9/14/2026
NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York City police officer’s service weapon discharged inside a Brooklyn subway station Thursday afternoon, sending another officer and a 34-year-old woman to hospitals with injuries from bullet fragments. The incident is now under investigation, but the police department’s public account changed within a day.
The shot was fired at about 4:40 p.m. inside the Kingston-Throop Avenues C-train station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to the NYPD. Police said the weapon was in the officer’s holster when it discharged. The officer whose gun fired, the second officer and the civilian were hospitalized in stable condition and later released.
The department’s first statement said nobody had been struck. A revised account issued Friday said fragments from the bullet hit the other officer and the woman. Police did not explain why the first statement was wrong.
That correction matters. An armed officer fired a round in a public transit station during the afternoon commute. Two people were injured, yet the first official account told New Yorkers that no one had been hit.
The NYPD has not publicly identified the officer whose weapon discharged. It also has not said what the officers were doing immediately before the gun fired, whether the holster or firearm malfunctioned, or where the bullet struck before fragments hit the two victims.
Early reports said an object may have become lodged in the holster. The department has not confirmed what the object was or whether equipment, handling or another factor caused the discharge.
Both officers were placed on modified duty. The NYPD Force Investigation Division is handling the case, police said. That unit investigates officer-involved firearm discharges and other serious uses of force.
No evidence released so far indicates that either injured person was the target of intentional gunfire. The available accounts describe the discharge as accidental. The investigation must still determine how a holstered service weapon fired in a crowded station and whether department rules, training or equipment failed.
The civilian’s name has not been released. Police have described her injuries as minor, but they have not detailed where she was struck or whether she faces continuing medical care.
The case also raises a basic transparency question: how did the department report that no one was struck when two people had been injured and all three people involved went to hospitals?
A timely correction is necessary, but it does not replace an explanation. Riders and the injured woman deserve a documented account of what happened, what the investigation found and what steps will be taken to prevent another discharge.
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