WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Police say an off-duty NYPD officer was hospitalized Saturday with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The officer was in a private car in Brooklyn when he shot himself in the chest.
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Police responded at about 11 a.m. to the vicinity of Wythe Avenue and Williamsburg Street in Williamsburg and found the officer in the front passenger seat of a Honda Accord, according to the NYPD.
The officer was taken to Elmhurst Hospital and is listed in stable condition. His identity has not yet been released.
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The circumstances that led to the shooting are not yet clear.