2 NYC Police Officers Wounded in Public Housing Shooting

Two police officers were shot and wounded by a gunman they encountered in the stairwell of a public housing project they were patrolling, and the gunman later killed himself

New York Police Department officers investigate a shooting at 35th Street and Eighth Avenue, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, in New York. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

NEW YORK—Two police officers were shot and wounded by a gunman they encountered in the stairwell of a public housing project they were patrolling, and the gunman later killed himself, authorities said.

Police said three officers were on the sixth floor of the Melrose Houses complex in the Bronx Thursday night when they encountered two people. One person pulled a gun and opened fire, hitting one officer in the face and the other in the abdomen, before running into an apartment on the seventh floor. The third officer was not hurt.

Police officers walk near the site where two police officers were shot at the Melrose Houses in the Bronx section of New York, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. AP Photo/Julio Cortez