A New York City teacher was struck by a stray bullet on the eve of the first day of school while setting up his classroom, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bullet flew through the window of the sixth-floor classroom, striking the 33-year-old teacher in his right hand, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident occurred shortly before noon Wednesday at a middle school in the Bronx, according to the NYC Department of Education.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The bullet is believed to have been fired from an elevated surface a long distance from the school, M.S. 391, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The school was not targeted,” Deputy Chief Keiyon Ramsey with the NYPD’s Patrol Borough Bronx told reporters during a news briefing Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The teacher suffered a graze wound to the palm of his right hand, Ramsey said. He was transported to a local hospital in stable condition and has since been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One fired bullet was recovered from the classroom and is being processed, Ramsey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police are working to determine where the bullet came from and who fired it, according to Deputy Chief Louis Deceglie with the NYPD’s Detective Bureau Bronx Commanding Officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We are currently searching all rooftops nearby, looking for both ballistic evidence and video evidence,” Deceglie told reporters during Wednesday’s briefing.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n No students were in the classroom at the time of the shooting, as school does not start until Thursday. Additionally, no students were around the school at the time, Ramsey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This egregious display of violence is both upsetting and reprehensible,” the DOE said in a statement. “NYPD immediately responded to the scene where one educator sustained non-life-threatening injuries. We will provide support additional support to this school community.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n There will be additional school safety agents and police officers at the middle school for the first day of school on Thursday “out of an abundance of caution,” Ramsey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n