Syracuse, N.Y. — A woman police said shot an off-duty Onondaga Community College officer outside a Syracuse bar was arrested Wednesday.
Sky Bessette, 25, is accused of stealing the OCC officer’s gun and shooting him in the leg after a verbal and physical altercation outside McAvan’s Pub at 1217 W. Fayette St., Syracuse police spokesperson Kieran Coffey said. The shooting happened shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 9.
The officer — Shane Prue, 46 — was shot with a Glock 43X, a 9mm pistol, Coffey said.
Prue was taken to Upstate University Hospital. He was released the same day, according to a hospital spokesperson.
Coffey and a college spokesperson would not confirm whether the gun was the officer’s service weapon. It is registered in Prue’s name, Coffey said.
Asked if the gun was an OCC-issued service weapon, Roger Mirabito, OCC’s spokesperson, would only say “our officers are not allowed to bring their service revolvers home.”
Mirabito also would not comment on Prue’s employment status at OCC.
Another man, Yaseen Shehadeh, was involved in the confrontation that led to the shooting but was not accused of firing the shot, police said.
Shehadeh was arrested after officers found him in possession of a stolen Taurus 9mm handgun, according to police and court documents. Officers said they also found approximately 7.9 grams of cocaine on him.
Police said surveillance video showed a dispute in the pub’s parking lot. Police described the altercation as both verbal and physical before escalating to a shooting.
Police have not released further details about what led to the argument, how Bessette gained control of the officer’s weapon or any details about her.
Bessette was charged with first-degree assault, first-degree robbery, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a firearm and first-degree reckless endangerment, according to arrest records.
She is scheduled to be arraigned in CAP Court Wednesday evening.
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