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An NYPD police officer was shot twice Friday morning while responding to a carjacking by a violent career criminal who was out on parole, police and New York City Mayor Eric Adams said.

The officer was shot in the arm and the leg and suffered non-life-threatening injuries in what Mayor Eric Adams described as a "friendly fire incident." It is understood that the officer was shot by crossfire from the police .

He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where police said he was in stable condition and alert and conscious.

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The suspect, 28-year-old Kevin Dubois, allegedly tried to rob people at a gas station before he then carjacked an Ub

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