NEW YORK — An off-duty New York City police officer shot and wounded a man in Manhattan’s Penn Station, the country’s busiest rail hub, during a chaotic confrontation that began aboard a stopped rush hour train, according to police and surveillance footage.

The officer and her husband, who is also a police officer, were waiting for a Long Island Rail Road train in plainclothes at 7 p.m. Wednesday when a 32-year-old man attempted to rob them, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department said.

Police said the female officer fired her weapon at the man, striking him in the arm. He was hospitalized in stable condition. No other injuries were reported.

The police spokesperson declined to say if the man had a weapon and did not offer other details about the alleged robbery.

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