NYC Shootings High: One Dead, Two Policemen Injured

A Rossi .38 revolver used to shoot police officer John Hirschberger in the leg, in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. (NYPD)

Although NYPD statistics show the massive outbreak of gun violence since April is finally dwindling, one man was shot dead in the Bronx this weekend and two police officers were injured during violent encounters.

Responding to a 911 call, shortly after midnight Saturday, police found a 23-year-old man with several shots in his torso and leg at the corner of Wickham Avenue and Tillotson Avenue in the Bronx. He was later pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital.

On Sunday around 2:30 a.m. police officer John Hirschberger, 28, and his partner were patrolling Marcus Garvey Blvd and Gates Avenue in Brooklyn when a 22-year-old black male fleeing from three plain-clothes policemen, drew a small Rossi .38 revolver and shot Hirschberger in the thigh.

Police officer John Hirschberger, shot in the leg in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. (NYPD)