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December 21, 2022, 5:31 PM

NYPD cop shot in foot during clash with gunman on Brooklyn street

By Thomas Tracy, Rocco Parascandola and Leonard Greene

An NYPD officer was shot in the foot Wednesday during a clash with a gunman near a Brooklyn school, according to police sources.

The officer, a patrolman for the 79th Precinct, was responding to a domestic dispute on Gates Ave. near Franklin Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant when a man involved in the clash pulled a gun and opened fire around 9 a.m., the sources said.

The shooting took place about a block from Public School 56, the Lewis H. Latimer School.

The wounded officer, Orlando Adorno, a seven-year NYPD veteran, was struck in the right foot. His fellow officers rushed him to Kings County Hospital in a squad car. He was treated and quickly released.

The gunman was wounded in a shootout with other officers. He was arrested and taken to Brookdale University Hospital.

The scary shooting shook up New Yorkers, none more than Adorno’s wife, Michelle.

“I lived everyone’s worst nightmare today getting the call and being picked up by a squad car rushed to the hospital full lights blaring,” the relieved wife tweeted hours after the incident. “It is unreal and the scrambling with 2 babies unsure if daddy will be ok. Thank God it was not worse.

“Nothing prepares you for that phone call,” she added. “Definitely shaken, but standing.”

Adorno is the 10th NYPD cop shot this year in nine total incidents, according to officials.

“I am deeply grateful for their courage and commitment,” said Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell. “They deserve our respect, and we need your support.”

Adorno received high praise from Mayor Adams, a retired NYPD captain, who met with the wounded officer and his family at the hospital.

“You don’t know what’s going to happen in your tour of duty,” Adams said at a news conference. “Let’s be clear. Because of Officer Adorno and his partner’s actions, we have a dangerous person off our street. We have an illegal gun off our street.”

Adorno’s partner is a rookie who was out on her first day of patrol, cops said.

Authorities said that nearly 7,000 guns have been recovered this year in the city, with about 4,400 gun arrests.

Officials said Wednesday’s shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute that quickly escalated.

Police were responding to a call from a woman who said the suspect, a friend, was in her apartment breaking a wall and refusing to leave.

When cops arrived, the woman and the suspect, Raheen Joye, were outside the building. While cops questioned them, two officers went upstairs to confirm her account of the damage. Police decided to arrest Joye, 41, for criminal mischief, officials said.

“As the officers attempted to place the male in custody, a struggle ensued, a shot was fired, striking our officer in the right foot,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig.

Body camera footage from the incident shows what happened, according to a police source.

“You’re getting arrested,” an officer tells Joye, according to the source.

“I’m getting arrested? I’m getting arrested?” he responds.

He can then be seen backing up and twisting his body as cops try to arrest him by grabbing his arms, according to the source’s account. Then a shot is fired.

“I’m shot!” Adorno says. “I’m shot! F--k!”

Cops said the gunman ran off with police in hot pursuit.

“Shots were exchanged, and our perpetrator was struck two times in [the] left thigh,” Essig said.

Cops recovered the gunman’s weapon at the scene, a turquoise-colored 9-mm. pistol.

Sources say Joye has several sealed arrests in New York and has been arrested several times in Georgia.

The NYPD was reaching out Wednesday to Georgia police to learn more about his criminal past.

Adorno was wheeled out of the hospital several hours later and fist-bumped John Chell, the NYPD’s chief of patrol.

“We cannot allow violence toward police officers to become normalized,” said Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch. “Now, we expect, and the citizens should demand, that the rest of the criminal justice [system] do their job like the New York City Police Department has done ours.”