NEW YORK (AP) – A suspect in a deadly shooting was shot and critically wounded after a police chase punctuated by gunfire early Saturday, police said.

The string of shootings unraveled from an argument between Daniel Israel and victim Warren Dandridge outside a fried-chicken restaurant in central Harlem, Sgt. Mike Wysokowski said.

Israel, 20, shot Dandridge in the abdomen, buttocks and ankle, police said. He then fired at two of Dandridge’s friends when they intervened, hitting one in the arm and grazing the other, Wysokowski said.

Two uniformed housing police officers heard the gunshots as they approached on patrol in a marked van at around 12:20 a.m. Then they spotted two of the wounded men and saw the suspect running away, police said.

The officers dashed after the suspect and fired their weapons, although it wasn’t clear whether the officers’ bullets were responsible for his wounds.

or whether he had also fired, Wysokowski said.

Israel was hit in the abdomen, and the officers quickly caught up with him in front of a nearby building, police said. They said the officers found a .45-caliber gun at the shooting scene near Fifth Avenue and East 110th Street, where .45-caliber shell casings were strewn on the street.

Israel was in critical condition at St. Luke’s Hospital, where Dandridge, 26, a subway conductor from Staten Island, died later Saturday morning, police said. The victim wounded in the arm was in stable condition, and the man with the graze wound also went to the hospital on his own for treatment, police said.

Israel was expected to be charged in the death. The officers weren’t wounded.

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