Police shoot suspect during domestic dispute call in Brooklyn

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Thursday, January 8, 2015
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Investigators say a suspect was shot during a confrontation with officers inside an apartment in Bushwick at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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BUSHWICK (WABC) -- A police-involved shooting in Brooklyn Wednesday night has left a suspect wounded.

Investigators say the suspect was shot during a confrontation with officers inside an apartment in Bushwick at 8:30 p.m.

Officers were responding to a domestic dispute call on Hancock Street. The 911 caller said a woman was being assaulted.

They say a man lunged at them with a knife.

An officer fired one shot at the man, hitting him in the torso.

The suspect was taken to Kings County Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The two officers were taken to the hospital for tinnitus.