An 18-year-old man is in critical condition and a police officer is recovering from a serious head injury after an altercation with police in the Bronx Thursday night, according to the NYPD.

Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera said officers from the 49th Precinct responded around 9:15 p.m. to a domestic robbery call on Van Nest Avenue. The caller told police his son had robbed his mother and older brother at gunpoint.

When officers arrived, the father told them he believed his son had fled to a home on Gun Hill Road and was still armed. Police arrived at the second location and set up a perimeter around the residence.

There, they made contact with the suspect, who denied being the person they were looking for, according to Rivera. The father, however, recognized his son’s voice.

“As officers

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