An NYPD detective was shot and wounded on a Queens expressway during the Friday morning rush, cops and sources said.

The detective — who is assigned to the department’s Queens North Warrants Squad — was shot in the leg and arm around 8:50 a.m. on the Whitestone Expressway near 22nd Road, according to authorities and law enforcement sources.

He was rushed in a police vehicle to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he is conscious and alert with non-life-threatening injuries.

An NYPD detective was shot on the Whitestone Expressway during the morning rush on Friday, August 22, 2025.

The shooting appeared to have erupted when narcotics detectives heading back to their command after serving a warrant encountered a robbery and carjacking in progress, the sources said.

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