QUEENS — The "career burglar" shot by police in Maspeth on Monday was officially arrested on burglary and other charges, NYPD officials said.
Felix Perez, 37, a resident of the Kingsborough Houses in Brooklyn, was shot by police on Monday afternoon during a burglary in the first-floor apartment of a two-family house.
Two officers responded to a 911 call of a burglary on Hull Avenue near 66th Street at about 1:30 p.m. after a woman saw a trespasser in her apartment through a live security video feed.
The homeowner met the officers on the street and told them the burglar was inside, police said.
Officers then entered the house, where one of the them found Perez in a back room, the NYPD said.
The burglar struggled with the officer, who fired his gun, hitting Perez in the groin, according to police.
Perez then fled the scene but police chased him down and apprehended him in the backyard of a house down the block, according to police.
Paramedics transported Perez to New York Presbyterian-Queens in critical condition, but he was listed in stable condition Tuesday, police said.
Perez is charged with burglary, criminal possession of stolen property and resisting arrest.
Another woman also suffered injuries less than a block away, in the opposite direction than that in which Perez ran. She was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where a piece of wire was removed from under her scalp, the NYPD said.
It appears she may have suffered a seizure completely unrelated to the robbery and fallen in her driveway, causing the injury, a law enforcement source told DNAinfo New York.
