Police Officer Shot in Brooklyn

A city police officer was shot in the arm while sitting in his patrol car early this morning in Brooklyn, police sources said.

Officer Brian O'Byrne was shot just before 5 a.m. while driving in a marked police car on a routine patrol through the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. The officer has been treated and released from Kings County Hospital, a police source said.

Commissioner Raymond said it is "difficult to say" whether the officer was the intended target of the shooter, who is thought to have fired from a nearby rooftop.

After the shooting, Mr. O'Byrne's car stopped at a corner on Bainbridge Street, a police source said. Police are searching for the gunman, the source said.

Two police officers were shot last month while on a routine patrol stop in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn. The gunfire killed one officer, Russel Timoshenko.