Two New York City police officers were shot in the Bronx Monday, the New York Times reports.
The two officers were not in uniform. They were investigating an armed robbery at a grocery store.
One officer, Andrew Dossi, 30, was shot in the lower back and arm, and was in critical but stable condition early Tuesday, the police said. The other officer, Aliro Pellerano, 38, was shot in the chest and arm was in stable condition.
At a news conference at St. Barnabas Hospital early Tuesday, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said the police were searching for two suspects. Later, around 4:45 a.m., the police released a video showing the suspect who they said fired at the officers.
After the shootings on Monday night, Deputy Chief Kim Y. Royster made it clear that the officers had not been initially targeted by the gunman — as occurred in the Dec. 20 fatal shooting of two officers in their patrol car in Brooklyn — but were instead investigating a robbery when the shooting began.
"The officers were part of a five-member plainclothes anticrime team," according to the Times. Their shift was nearly over, but the officers went out to investigate when the grocery store robbery was reported.