N.Y.P.D. Says Officer Accidentally Fired Gun Inside Columbia Building

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The team gained access to the office and found that there was nobody inside.
The police said a sergeant unintentionally fired his gun into an empty room of Hamilton Hall while officers were removing pro-Palestinian protesters from the building
The sergeant had broken the glass of a locked office on the first floor of the building and switched his firearm — a 9-millimeter handgun with a flashlight mounted on it — from his right hand to his left hand to reach through the broken glass to unlock the door from the inside, said Carlos Valdez, assistant chief of the Emergency Services Unit.
All of the protesters had been moved to one area of the first floor, but the police did not know at the time whether anyone was inside the locked office before they entered, officials said on Friday.