MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- An off-duty officer shot a suspect during an attempted robbery at Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan during the height of rush hour on Wednesday, according to police.

Law enforcement officials say a couple, a husband and wife, were boarding an LIRR train between tracks 18 and 19 around 7 p.m., when the suspect tried to rob the husband, an off-duty NYPD officer.

The suspect wound up in a scuffle with the husband, and that's when police say the wife, also an off-duty NYPD officer, pulled out her gun and shot the suspect in the arm and stomach.

The shooting came as quite a shock for a trainload of commuters bound for Ronkonkoma, who watched stunned, as police tended to the bleeding suspect in the middle of the platform.

He was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is

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