The Wednesday manhunt for Jose Rodriguez (pictured), the shackled prisoner who managed to escape from the NYPD by stealing a police car, had NJ communities on the alert. Some schools were locked down and one resident got ready by making sure his gun was loaded...and then he accidentally shot himself. Cliffview Pilot reports, "Cliffside Park Police Chief Donald Keane [said] that the 44-year-old West End Avenue resident 'heard about the fugitive' and immediately began loading his legally Sig Sauer P-228 9mm -- a model long preferred by some federal agents -- when it discharged. The unidentified resident sustained a 'flesh wound' to his right hand." Rodriguez was later captured in Connecticut. more ›

A city Correction Officer's 15-year-old son may be facing charges after shooting his friend in the abdomen. The teenager had allegedly been playing video games with his friends in his home in Flatlands when he was able to crack the safe containing his mom's 9-mm. pistol. While showing off the gun to his friends, he pulled the trigger and his his 20-year-old friend in the stomach. It's unclear if the shooting was an accident. more ›

Plaxico Burress is at Giants Stadium to meet with team officials for the first time since he accidentally shot himself in the thigh. And the NYPD is investigating why NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, which treated the Giants star, did not report the shooting to the police. According to the NY Times, state law requires hospitals or doctors to contact the authorities "at once." more ›

This morning, Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress turned himself in at the 17th Precinct, two days after, reportedly, accidentally shooting himself in the thigh while at the LQ nightclub in Midtown. The Daily News reports Burress walked "with no sign of a limp from the bullet wound." more ›

Oh, Plaxico Burress. Fox Sports reports, "The New York Giants wide receiver accidentally shot himself in the leg on Friday night... He spent the night in the hospital and the injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. The team is still trying to gather further information on the incident." more ›

Gunshots fired at a Civil War re-enactment may have reopened centuries of festering tensions after a New York native was shot last weekend--with a real bullet. 73-year-old Thomas Lord, a corporal in the Seventh New York Volunteer Cavalry fighting as part of the Union cause, had to be taken off the Sumner, VA battlefield in a helicopter after a marble-sized bulled hit him in the back and passed though his shoulder. Guns are usually inspected before re-enactors go into battle and no one from the Confederates has admitted that they fired the weapon in question. John Jobe, a fellow re-enactor portraying a sergeant alongside Lord, says that he is eager to find out just who shot him and wants to press charges, telling the NY Times that "some yahoos are still fighting the war." Mr. Lord sounded equally disappointed that his injury forced a temporary truce, just when the Union soldiers had arrived in a trench where "the rebels were dug in and we had taken their earthworks." more ›

Worst boyfriend of the week: A Queens man was arrested after shooting his girlfriend, who had been sleeping in bed in their Queens apartment. Police suspect Larry Smith had been cleaning his (illegal) gun when it went off and shot Felicia Crawford in the chest. A police source tells the Post that Smith had the firearm in bed because "He heard a noise and he got up to get his gun." Crawford is in stable condition at Mary Immaculate Hospital. A neighbor says Smith "feels very bad about what happened." more ›

A teenager hanging out with his friends in Brooklyn apartment was shot in the head when one starting playing with a gun yesterday afternoon. The victim, Marquise Perez, described as being either 13- or 15-years-old, is in "extremely critical condition" at Kings County Hospital. more ›