An NYPD detective was shot in the back in a wild shootout after he a fellow officer jumped out of their car to confront an armed teen. An 18-year-old suspect was arrested after the gunfight, which happened at Nostrand Avenue and St. Johns Place in Crown Heights around 4:45 a.m. Two officers with a sex offender monitoring unit were in an unmarked police car when the teen suspect allegedly approached them with a semi-automatic pistol.
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