Woman charged with shooting OCC police officer with his own gun outside bar

Syracuse, N.Y. — A woman police said shot an off-duty Onondaga Community College officer outside a Syracuse bar was arrested Wednesday.

Sky Bessette, 25, is accused of stealing the OCC officer’s gun and shooting him in the leg after a verbal and physical altercation outside McAvan’s Pub at 1217 W. Fayette St., Syracuse police spokesperson Kieran Coffey said. The shooting happened shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 9.

The officer — Shane Prue, 46 — was shot with a Glock 43X, a 9mm pistol, Coffey said.

Prue was taken to Upstate University Hospital. He was released the same day, according to a hospital spokesperson.

Coffey and a college spokesperson would not confirm whether the gun was the officer’s service weapon. It is registered in Prue’s name, Coffey said.

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