An off-duty FBI agent opened fire on three brazen thieves -- hitting one in the back -- after they tried breaking into his vehicle, law enforcement sources said.
The agent and a woman saw the trio outside his South Ozone Park house, on Sutter Avenue near 130th Street, where they were trying to steal a radio, cops said.
The agent called 911 and fired on the suspects, hitting one in the back at 5:17 a.m., law enforcement sources said.
All three men fled in a dark colored car, police said.
Police searched the area and local hospitals and found the injured suspect at Brookdale Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
"We're out here," FBI spokesman J. Peter Donald told The Post. "There was a shooting involving an off-duty agent from the New York field office. I can't guarantee you we're going to have a conclusive finding today."
A source said the incident apparently occurred when the agent was not on duty and might have been "on the way to work."
The FBI’s New York field office was automatically removed from the shooting investigation to ensure that the probe is not biased, according to bureau regulations.
"A team from headquarters will open a shooting incident review and that's anytime a round is discharged" from a gun, an FBI source said. "This is a high level team. The actual field office is not involved in the actual shooting review."
The agent involved in the shooting will be on modified duty and confined to office work, the source said.
The gun involved in the incident must be confiscated for the investigation. An FBI agent is not allowed to be deployed to the field without his weapon.
Investigators, the source said, will be focusing on what was inside the agent's vehicle and whether any sensitive items -- such as weapons or surveillance equipment -- were properly secured.
"Different people will be assigned different equipment," the source said.
The agent and a woman saw the trio outside his South Ozone Park house, on Sutter Avenue near 130th Street, where they were trying to steal a radio, cops said.
The agent called 911 and fired on the suspects, hitting one in the back at 5:17 a.m., law enforcement sources said.
All three men fled in a dark colored car, police said.
Police searched the area and local hospitals and found the injured suspect at Brookdale Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
"We're out here," FBI spokesman J. Peter Donald told The Post. "There was a shooting involving an off-duty agent from the New York field office. I can't guarantee you we're going to have a conclusive finding today."
A source said the incident apparently occurred when the agent was not on duty and might have been "on the way to work."
The FBI’s New York field office was automatically removed from the shooting investigation to ensure that the probe is not biased, according to bureau regulations.
"A team from headquarters will open a shooting incident review and that's anytime a round is discharged" from a gun, an FBI source said. "This is a high level team. The actual field office is not involved in the actual shooting review."
The agent involved in the shooting will be on modified duty and confined to office work, the source said.
The gun involved in the incident must be confiscated for the investigation. An FBI agent is not allowed to be deployed to the field without his weapon.
Investigators, the source said, will be focusing on what was inside the agent's vehicle and whether any sensitive items -- such as weapons or surveillance equipment -- were properly secured.
"Different people will be assigned different equipment," the source said.
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