A bystander was shot Monday as police took aim at a gunman in Brooklyn. He spoke to CBS New York's Alice Gainer.
NEW YORK -- An innocent bystander was shot Monday as police took aim at a gunman in Brooklyn, but he told CBS New York's Alice Gainer that he's just relieved officers were able to stop the man.Police ultimately shot and killed the man they were after. They say the gunman was running around firing off shots at two people after one tried to rob him.Sixty-year-old Henry Massop says he was just outside doing work when he was shot twice.
I just leave the car to get a tool -- pow, pow. I said, 'What is this?' It was so strange. I said, 'What happened? Let me look around.' Cops are all over, intense, like, two seconds,' Massop said.Massop says he saw the officer and was shot before he noticed the man with the gun.'It was burning,' he said. 'I see the guy was running ... with the gun up.
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