NYPD Officer on Mayor Mamdani’s Security Detail Suspended Following Off-Duty Shooting Incident

An officer from the New York City Police Department, tasked with safeguarding Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence and City Hall, has been suspended following an incident in which he allegedly shot a man in the head while off duty.

The incident unfolded in the Bronx around 9 p.m. on Monday, after the officer engaged with a group of men in connection to a stolen vehicle, as reported by the NYPD.

Authorities have yet to disclose the officer’s identity, and as of Thursday morning, he has not faced arrest or criminal charges. Nevertheless, he has been suspended without pay.

The NYPD confirmed to The Associated Press that its Force Investigation Division is currently probing the circumstances surrounding the shooting.

A spokesperson for the NYPD told The Associated Press that the department’s Force Investigation Division is investigating the shooting.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the NYPD.

The victim, identified only as a 30-year-old man, was hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said. 

The shooting happened in the Bronx on Monday at around 9 p.m. (Susan Watts/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Mamdani’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

The city’s official mayoral residence is a stately home known as Gracie Mansion located in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan.

A manager of a bar across the street from where the shooting occurred said one of the business’s windows was struck and cracked by gunfire. 

The NYPD’s Force Investigation Division is investigating the shooting. (Fox News)

Nobody inside the establishment was harmed in the shooting.

“Imagine if someone was sitting in that window at that time,” the bar’s manager, Ada Gomez, told The Associated Press.

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