An 18-month-old boy was accidentally shot in the arm by an off-duty cop in Brooklyn yesterday, police said.
The officer, 24, a two-year veteran who works in Manhattan, according to sources, was cleaning the gun in his second-floor apartment in Mill Basin when the weapon dropped and discharged at about 3 p.m.
The boy was in a playpen with his twin brother in a first-floor apartment when the bullet came through the ceiling.
The tot was rushed to Brookdale Hospital in good condition.
“He’s going to be OK,” said his 17-year-old brother. “There’s a hole in the living-room ceiling, a big hole above the playpen.”
The officer has not been charged.