Police: Correction officer's charged after gun goes off in Midtown bar

Wednesday, May 24, 2017
MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- An off-duty city correction officer has been charged after police said he accidentally fired a shot from his service weapon in a Manhattan bar.

Mario Carrillo, 56, an off-duty correction officer, was charged with assault and reckless endangerment.
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Around midnight Wednesday, Carrillo and a woman were in Mamasita Bar & Grill on 10th Avenue in Midtown when his service weapon accidentally discharged, according to the New York City Police Department.

He was shot in the left finger. The 29-year-old woman he was with was shot in the foot.

Carrillo had been attempting to show her the weapon when it accidentally discharged, police said.
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Both went to Bellevue Hospital with non-life threatening injuries; they were stable.

The incident is under investigation.
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