On Saturday, a plainclothes New York City police officer in an unmarked car was shot in the face after driving up to a man to question him, the New York Times reports. The officer is in critical but stable condition.

According to the Times, Officer Brian Moore, 25, was shot in the left cheek—the bullet went out the right side of his head—at around 6:15 p.m. on 212th Street in Queens Village. Commissioner Bill Bratton said Moore and his partner Erik Jansen approached a man who was “walking and adjusting an object in his waistband” and began questioning him.

The man fired at the officers before running off, police said. After a 90-minute search, a suspect—Demetrius Blackwell, 35—was apprehended. As of late Saturday, police were still looking for the gun.

Other officers moved Moore to a squad car and drove him to Jamaica Hospital, where the New York Post reports he is in a medically-induced coma.

Update, 11:40 a.m. – Blackwell will be arraigned Sunday on two counts of attempted murder of a police officer, the Associated Press reports.

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