A plainclothes NYPD officer was hit in the forehead with a possible BB gun pellet while driving in an unmarked vehicle in Queens Wednesday evening, police said.
Two officers were in the unmarked police car driving down Jamaica Avenue at about 5:15 p.m. when they heard a loud noise near 168th Street, according to police. The driver's side window was down, and the officer behind the wheel was struck in the forehead with what police initially believed was a pellet from a BB gun.
But police now aren't sure what it was that hit the officer. He was taken to a local hospital with a puncture wound to the forehard and is expected to be OK.
NYPD Assistant Chief David Barrere said X-rays and CAT scans revealed "a foreign projectile launched in his forehead."
Witnesses said police swarmed on the busy intersection in Jamaica after the incident.
"First we saw one or two cop cars... then all of a sudden 20 cars came and they stoped everything, all buses, said, 'Everyone get off,'" said resident Vishal Buri.
Police are searching for the shooter.
