A New York City police officer is recovering after
accidentally shooting himself in the leg in Brooklyn Saturday night. Officials
say he was part of a unit responding to a domestic dispute at a building on
Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 8 p.m. They say the officer was
in a stairwell trying to holster his gun when it discharged. The bullet hit the
officer in the right leg. The officer was taken to the hospital. He's expected
to be OK.