An NYPD officer was shot and injured Tuesday morning during a standoff with a man who barricaded himself for hours inside his Lower East Side apartment, officials said.

Authorities said the officer was struck in the upper arm and that his injuries were not life-threatening. After initially being taken to Bellevue Hospital, he was released Tuesday afternoon and is expected to make a full recovery, officials said.

What You Need To Know

  • A man shot and injured an NYPD officer as police were trying to conduct a search warrant for illegal guns inside an apartment at NYCHA's Vladeck Houses Tuesday morning, authorities said

  • The shooting came hours into a standoff during which the suspect barricaded himself into the apartment, police said. Officers returned the suspect's fire, striking him several times, the NYPD said

  • Police said the officer, who was struck in the upper arm, is expected to make a full recovery. The suspect was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is also expected to survive

Gunfire first broke out shortly after 5 a.m., when police attempted to conduct a search warrant for illegal guns inside an apartment at NYCHA’s Vladeck Houses on Madison Street, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a news briefing at Bellevue.

Tisch said as a team of Emergency Service Unit officers entered the apartment, a man — identified by police as 34-year-old Edwin Rivera — fired five to six rounds at them.

Rather than return fire, police “tactically repositioned” into the hallway, at which point Rivera barricaded himself in the apartment, with an upright couch blocking the doorway, Tisch said.

Tisch said a hostage negotiation team contacted Rivera over FaceTime, getting his family involved, but he eventually disengaged.

Just before 8:20 a.m., officers tried to move the couch blocking the front door, at which point Rivera allegedly fire several rounds at police, striking one officer in the left shoulder.

Police then returned fire, striking him multiple times, Tisch said. Rivera was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is expected to survive, she said.

Mayor Eric Adams, who spoke briefly at the press conference, condemned the outburst of violence.

“We’re grateful for his safety, but we’re also angry,” Adams said. “We’re angry because the shooter is a violent, repeated offender with prior gun arrests, who was on parole for narcotics use and sales.”

Tisch said Rivera was a “career criminal” with multiple prior arrests for gun possession and narcotics who has been on parole four times.

He was on parole at the time of the shooting, she added, with his last arrest on Nov. 6 of last year for criminal possession of stolen property and resisting arrest.

By early Thursday morning, Rivera had been charged with a battery of crimes, including four counts of attempted murder in the first degree, attempted assault upon a police officer, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Attorney information for Rivera wasn't immediately available Tuesday.