Off-Duty Queens Cop Shoots Bat-Wielding Man Near LI Home: Police

SEAFORD, NY — An off-duty police officer shot a bat-wielding man outside the officer's Seaford home following an altercation.

A spokesman for Nassau County police told Patch officers were sent to the home on Stirrup Path just after 12 a.m. Friday for a report of gunshots. A 29-year-old man was shot and ran off. Officers found him a few houses away and took him to a hospital in stable condition, police said.

The 34-year-old off-duty officer was also taken to a hospital but was not hurt. A police investigation remains ongoing. No arrests have been made. Police wouldn't immediately release the officer's name or say how long he'd been in the police force.

Multiple media outlets reported the officer was an off-duty NYPD sergeant. WABC-TV reported the officer had just returned from an NYPD boxing event and found the man in his home with his wife. The man grabbed a baseball bat out of his car when the officer told him to leave and the two got into an altercation outside the home, according to the report.

Some neighbors said the sergeant had been threatened by the bat-wielding man and others awoke to gunshots.

"When I woke up, I come out and I see all the cops everywhere," Dennis Yankowitz told WABC-TV. "It's definitely scary, you know, you never really see that many police here."

The sergeant reportedly works in the 103rd Precinct in Queens.

The shooting comes after a retired law enforcement officer last week pulled a gun and shot another man in a late-night road rage incident in North Bellmore that left both men hurt and one arrested.

Below are photos from the scene, courtesy of John F. Scalesi, Jr.