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VIDEO: NYPD Officer Leaves Hospital Day After Fatal Bronx Shooting

By William Mathis | February 5, 2016 6:18pm | Updated on February 7, 2016 4:48pm
 NYPD Officer Patrick Espeut was released from Lincoln hospital on Feb. 5, 2016 after being shot during a vertical patrol of a Bronx housing project.
NYPD Officer Patrick Espeut was released from Lincoln hospital on Feb. 5, 2016 after being shot during a vertical patrol of a Bronx housing project.
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SOUTH BRONX — One of the NYPD officers who was shot during a patrol of a South Bronx housing project Thursday night was released from the hospital Friday afternoon at around 4:30 p.m. to a crowd of cheering police officers.

In a video released by the NYPD, Officer Patrick Espeut, 29, was seen exiting Lincoln Hospital in a wheelchair before standing up and walking unaided to a waiting police van.

Despite the near-fatal encounter, Espeut could walk without assistance and had no visible signs of being wounded.

Espeut, 29, was shot in the face Thursday night during a vertical patrol of the Melrose Houses in the South Bronx. Malik Chavis, 23, shot the officer and his partner and then killed himself in his girlfriend's apartment.

Espeut's partner, Officer Diara Cruz, was also injured in last night's shooting. Cruz is in stable condition, but has not yet been released. She was awaiting surgery to remove a bullet lodged in her leg as of Friday morning.