LI NYPD Officer Shot In Head In Harlem Leaves Hospital: WATCH

Lindenhurst NY

04 January, 2022

10:01 AM

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SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY—An NYPD police officer from Long Island was discharged from the hospital Sunday after being hit in the head by a stray bullet, while police search for the shooter. Keith Wagenhauser, 33, was applauded by NYPD brass and New York City Mayor Eric Adams when he stood up from a wheelchair outside New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and gave a thumbs up sign. On Saturday, the officer was napping in his personal vehicle before his shift in the parking lot of the 25th precinct in East Harlem on East 119th Street. He awoke to pain and bleeding from his head, and he underwent surgery to remove the bullet fragments. Officer Wagenhauser is expected to continue making a full recovery at home, the NYPD reported. The officer is a former Marine who made headlines 12 years ago when he was in a public battle to gain emergency leave from service to see his daughter, born two months prematurely at only two pounds. Local politicians appealed to the military on his behalf, and the emotional father-infant meeting was captured by local media at the time. There are currently no suspects in the shooting, and the NYPD is offering a $10,000 for information related to the incident.