Off-Duty Correction Officer Fatally Shoots Man In Barbershop

Sources say the officer, identified as Michael Mininni, 25, was getting a haircut at a barbershop located at 1706 Bath Avenue and Bay 16th Street in Bensonhurst when Carmelo Calabro, 77, walked in around 1:30 p.m.

Sources say the two men got into an argument stemming from a long-standing dispute between their two families.

Witnesses tell police a struggle ensued and the officer fired one shot, striking Calabro in the head and killing him.

"I was down the block and all I heard was two gun shots, and that's it. Then I ran over here and everything just got cut off and cops showed up and they just covered up everything. That's all I heard. I didn't hear nothing else," said eyewitness Saquib Khalil. "I don't know what happened inside -- maybe some kind of a fight. All I heard was two gunshots and then I just left."

Mininni was taken to Lutheran Hospital for treatment.

Police sources say the two men's families had been feuding for years, and that it even resulted in an order of protection.