A man was shot early today outside a Brooklyn bar after he grabbed the gun of an off-duty cop and began firing the weapon, authorities and witnesses said.
The gunfire took place at the Old Gallery bar in Kensington at about 4 a.m. and ended with the man being shot twice.
The melee began outside the bar when Officer Albert Lloyd, 37, was approached by a man, identified by sources as Jonathan Leduc.
Sources said Leduc bumped into the officer and asked him, “What are you looking at?”
Loyd replied, "I don’t want any problems,” according to sources, and pulled out his NYPD shield
“I don’t care who are,” Leduc allegedly said, before punching Lloyd in the face, knocking out his earring.
Leduc then called his pals, who are inside the bar at the time, and they attacked the other off-duty officer, 28-year-old Jason Reynolds.
Sources said Pablo Roberto Negron punched Reynolds and grabbed him in a headlock.
During the fight, Negron tried to grab Reynolds' gun, sources said.
That's when the gun dropped to the ground, where Negron picked it up and started to fire rounds at the officer.
Reynolds ran towards 18th Avenue, while Lloyd pulled out his weapon and yelled, “Drop the gun! Drop the gun!"
He fired twice at Negron, striking him once in the thigh and once in the torso, police said.
As a result, Negron dropped the gun -- but it was picked up by Jose Rivera, 22, who runs off with it.
Rivera was later arrested and the gun was recovered on a nearby building rooftop.
Negron was taken to Lutheran Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
Neither of the two off-duty cops, who were in plainclothes at the time, were injured. Both men work out of the 70th Precinct stationhouse.
Cops have five men in custody, but no one has yet been charged.
The Old Gallery's owner, 40-year-old Cory McErlaine, said that she woke up to the news of the shootout this morning.
"I'm beyond shocked. I woke up horrified," McErlaine said from inside the bar, which will be closed until Thursday night.
"There's never violence here, not in the 75 years this business has been open. We have baby showers here, and my children have been here. I wouldn't put my children in danger."
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