A bullet is a bullet, friendly fire or not. It’s one of law enforcement’s biggest nightmares: shooting one of their own.
By Dan Herbeck, Lou Michel and Gene Warner
News Staff Reporters
BUFFALO — An FBI agent was shot early this morning, apparently by another agent, while executing an arrest warrant during a roundup of major drug trafficking suspects on the city’s East Side.
Police would not reveal the agent’s name, the extent of his injuries or his condition after he was shot about 6 a.m. while trying to make an arrest at a house on Coit Street.
But two law enforcement officials who know the agent told The Buffalo News that he was in stable condition after suffering a gunshot wound to his shoulder that was not life-threatening.
The wounded agent was seen sitting up, wearing an oxygen mask, as he was taken by ambulance to Erie County Medical Center, where he was reportedly visited by his wife.
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