Opinion
December 12, 1994
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Juviler, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The information supplied by a citizen informant, even an unidentified one, during a face-to-face encounter with a police officer in the immediate vicinity of a crime scene (see, People v Agyman, 204 A.D.2d 731), the closeness of the temporal and spatial description of, and encounter with, the defendant (see, People v Thorne, 184 A.D.2d 797; People v Pagan, 173 A.D.2d 744), the defendant's flight (see, e.g., People v Leung, 68 N.Y.2d 734; People v Price, 194 A.D.2d 634), and the police officer's own observations (see, e.g., People v Sattan, 200 A.D.2d 640; People v Price, supra; People v DeJesus, 169 A.D.2d 521) provided the officers with a reasonable suspicion to approach and subsequently pursue the defendant (see generally, People v Holmes, 81 N.Y.2d 1056). Since the police entered the apartment as a result of the officer's "hot pursuit" of the fleeing defendant, who was believed to be in possession of a gun, the seizure of the defendant and the recovery of the narcotics and the weapon was proper (see, People v Johnson, 83 N.Y.2d 831; People v Ortiz, 190 A.D.2d 580; People v Brantley, 189 A.D.2d 886). Rosenblatt, J.P., Lawrence, Joy and Krausman, JJ., concur.