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On Thursday afternoon just before 4:45 p.m., an on-duty, uniformed NYPD officer accidentally discharged their firearm inside the Kingston-Throop Avenues subway station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.According to police reports, the weapon went off while remaining inside its holster on the station’s southbound platform for the A and C lines. Bullet fragments struck a nearby second on-duty officer as well as a 34-year-old female bystander.Both the bystander and the second officer sustained minor injuries. They, along with the officer whose gun discharged, were taken to area hospitals for evaluation and medical treatment, and all three were subsequently released.Following the incident, both involved officers were placed on modified duty pending an ongoing review by the NYPD’s Force Investigation Division.