Vacationing NYPD detective wounded in Miami shootout showing signs of recovery
Posted By Admin on July 29, 2011
A vacationing NYPD detective critically injured in a Miami Beach gunfight is showing signs of recovery, sources said.
Detective Harold Thomas, 48, is surrounded by family at Jackson Memorial Hospital after being shot once in the leg Saturday.
Bullet fragments hit a major artery, sources said, and he had to be placed in a medically induced coma.
The detective is responding to treatment, a source said. Theyve stopped the bleeding.
Police are investigating the shootout in a hallway of the trendy South Beach hotel where Thomas was vacationing, as part of a possible robbery attempt.
Thomas, a 27-year veteran assigned to the NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, returned fire in the gun battle, hitting a suspect three times, sources said.
A Miami Beach police spokesman said no suspects were in custody, but a source said a man who walked into a nearby hospital with a gunshot wound 20 minutes after the gun battle was still being held for questioning.
A bullet removed from the man was in fragments, making ballistics tests to see if it matched the detectives gun impossible, a source said.
Cops have identified a second suspect, the source said, and seized a white BMW that fled the scene.
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