2 NYPD officers shot in confrontation with gunman

NEW YORK -- Two police officers were shot in a confrontation with a gunman who slammed his car into a police vehicle early Saturday, in the second on-duty shooting of multiple officers in the nation's biggest city this month, police said.

Officers William Reddin and Andrew Yurkiw were in stable condition after the 3:30 a.m. encounter, which happened as multiple officers converged and fired at an armed driver who had pointed a gun at some of the officers, fled and then rammed a police car, Police Commissioner William Bratton said.

Police were investigating how many officers fired and the exact sequence of events, including whether police themselves fired any of the shots that injured their colleagues. It's standard for police shooting investigations to look into the possibility of what's known as "friendly fire," and Saturday's shooting unfolded in what Bratton described as "a complex crime scene" involving eight officers and suspect Jamal Funes.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Yurkiw and Reddin were alert and expected to recover.

"These are very dedicated officers who were out there protecting us," de Blasio, a Democrat, said at a news conference.

Funes, 34, was in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds, Bratton said. It wasn't immediately clear whether Funes had a lawyer who could comment on his behalf, and no working telephone number for Funes' family could immediately be found.

Officers found a .357 Magnum revolver on the front seat of Funes' car, with five spent shell casings in the gun, Bratton said. He said police were trying to determine what might have prompted Funes' conduct.