Correction Officer Arrested For Shooting His Teenage Son In Woodside

Correction Officer Arrested For Shooting His Teenage Son
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A NYPD officer secures a crime scene tape during an investigating of a fatal shooting outside a bed and breakfast inn on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 in Harlem's Morris Park neighborhood. Police say they responded to a call at the 54 West 120th St. bed and breakfast and found a 23-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the neck. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

WOODSIDE — A city correction officer was arrested in Queens early Sunday for shooting his teenage son, according to police.

Cops say the incident took place around 4:30 a.m. on 57th Street in Woodside, when Robert Smalls allegedly shot his 17-year-old son in the abdomen after an argument.

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