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Off-Duty Cop In Shooting At Brooklyn's Old Gallery Bar
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Jen Chung
Published Jul 7, 2011
Modified Jul 7, 2011
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Early this morning, a brawl led to gunfire at Kensington bar Old Gallery on McDonald Avenue—and apparently an off-duty cop was one of the people who fired. A witness told NY1, "I heard like three bullets. And in my mind I was like, that's firecrackers. Then I thought, no it's gunshots. Then I looked out the window, and I just see a bunch of people running from the bar, and I heard like maybe six more shots and there's a police car outside." One of the bar patrons summed it up neatly to the Daily News: "People got drunk and they start fighting. It goes outside and then [the shooting] happened so fast."
While it's unclear whether the off-duty cop was inside the bar when the fighting broke out at 4 a.m., reports say he fired after a man pulled a gun on him, wounding the man in the leg and back. A friend told the News that the injured man's street name was "Corrupt." The News also spoke to a cabdriver named Al Bundy who said the cops arrived quickly as well a neighbor who really hates Old Gallery, "Every morning, when I get up for work there's brawls going on. They're all spewing from that bar. That's a horrible bar."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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