MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- The man accused of attempting to rob and assaulting two off-duty officers in Penn Station leading to a shooting is now charged in the crimes.

Jahmar Stewart, 32, is charged with attempted robbery and assault. He remains hospitalized at Bellevue Hospital with a gunshot wound.

An off-duty officer shot Stewart 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 Stewart tried to rob the husband, an off-duty NYPD officer.

Stewart allegedly wound up in a scuffle with the husband, and that's when police say the wife, also an off-duty NYPD officer,

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