An off-duty NYPD detective was stabbed and wounded during an attempted robbery in the Bronx Friday, police said.
The detective was retrieving something from the trunk of his black Mustang parked in front of a single-family home on E. 208th St. near Steuben Ave. in Norwood around 2 p.m. when two men crept up behind him and tried to steal his gold chain, law enforcement sources said.
“It was that kind of job,” the police source said. “They rolled up on him on a bike and tried to snatch his chain.”
The 33-year-old victim was stabbed up to seven times, sustaining wounds to his neck and torso, as he fought off the would-be robbers, sources said.
The two suspects fled on an e-bike, but the off-duty cop gave chase, pursuing them for about two blocks to Rochambeau Ave. near E. 206th St., where he collapsed.
“He got stabbed, and he was chasing the guy,” said a witness, who asked that his name be withheld. “He chased the guy, and that’s where he collapsed, in front of the building where I was sitting. We know him from the neighborhood, so we know he’s a cop.”
Video obtained by the Daily News shows police assisting EMS in lifting the wounded detective off the street, where blood can be seen pooling along the curb, and onto a gurney.
Medics rushed the victim to Jacobi Hospital, where he’s expected to survive. Both Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Mamdani visited him in the hospital.
“I visited the detective and his family at Jacobi Hospital with Police Commissioner Tisch,” Mamdani said in a post on X. “He is thankfully in stable condition, and I am hoping for his quick and complete recovery.”
“I am confident that the NYPD will identify and apprehend the suspects and that the people responsible will be held to account.”
Police are searching for the suspects, who fled empty-handed, police sources said.
The victim’s Mustang could be seen on the street with its trunk open Friday evening, with the victim’s gold chain and his backpack lying nearby on the ground.
Felony assaults are up 6% in the Bronx’s 52nd Precinct, where the stabbing occurred, with 739 incidents so far this year, compared to 694 during the same period in 2025, according to statistics current as of Sunday.
That’s significantly worse than the citywide increase of less than 1%, with 22,537 reported felony assaults so far in 2026 versus 22,439 at the same point last year.
Robberies in the precinct are down 3% so far in 2026, with 360 muggings, compared to 372 last year. Meanwhile, the five boroughs overall have seen a 12% dip in robberies, with 9,970 incidents reported so far this year versus 11,333 by the same time in 2025.
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