The NYPD officer who shot by a gunman in Queens Tuesday night was greeted by a round of applause from fellow officers as he left the hospital Wednesday.

An officer with the New York Police Department was shot while in Queens, according to a law enforcement source, with the shooter also hit by a bullet.

An NYPD officer who was shot in the line of duty in Queens was released from the hospital on Wednesday. Officer Rich Wong, 36, was shot in his thigh while trying to arrest an armed robbery suspect in Jamaica Tuesday evening,