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2 cops in subway shooting leave hospital

NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said plainclothes officers

Photo credit: DCPI | NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said plainclothes officers Lukasz Kozicki, left, and Michael Levay, center, were on patrol in Brooklyn Jan. 4 when shot by a man with a 9-millimeter handgun. Off-duty officer Juan Pichardo was shot in the thigh at his family's Bronx car dealership the same night, police said.

Two of the three NYPD officers wounded Thursday night in two separate incidents were released from the hospital Friday, officials said.

To the applause of colleagues, Officers Michael Levay, 27, and Lukasz Kozicki, 32, left Lutheran Medical Center in wheelchairs.

The transit officers were making a plainclothes patrol on a Manhattan-bound N train when they asked a man for his identification...

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