Anticipation rises for NYPD sergeant who was shot to leave hospital

KIPS BAY, Manhattan (PIX11) -- Anticipation is high for an NYPD sergeant to be released from the hospital the day after he was shot by a man who had just been collared on a burglary charge by the sergeant and another supervising cop. 

Both men were shot in the incident by a man who police say was out on probation for another crime, and who's waiting to go before a judge. It's all happening hours after one of the two arresting cops was discharged from the hospital, to head home to recover. 

That officer, a 34-year-old sergeant with 11 years on the force, received a hero's reception when he was released from medical care at Bellevue Hospital on Thursday evening. With dozens of fellow officers saluting, and then applauding boisterously, the neighborhood coordination sergeant was moved out of the front door of Bellevue in a wheelchair, with his pregnant wife and his mother on either side of him. 

The as-yet unnamed sergeant had suffered a graze wound in the shooting that left the other sergeant under medical watch on Thursday evening into Friday night. 

The other sergeant, whose name has also not been released officially, is a 43-yea...