Jessica Durando

USA TODAY

Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority police officers fired shots at a vehicle believed to be hijacked at gunpoint near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toll plaza on Staten Island, N.Y., Monday morning, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Officers were instructed by the New York Police Department to look out for the vehicle, said Kevin Ortiz, spokesman for the MTA.

The incident, under investigation by the NYPD, happened at the Staten Island-bound toll plaza about 1:15 a.m. ET, Ortiz said. Ortiz would not say at what point the shots were fired.

The NYPD said there were about four rounds discharged at the vehicle but said the timing was under investigation.

A TBTA police officer stopped the vehicle at the plaza and a female passenger got out and tried to flee. She has been taken into custody and is being questioned, said Sgt. Lee Jones, a spokesman for NYPD's Deputy Commissioner for Public Information. There are no official charges yet against the female passenger, Jones said.

The driver had taken off on a service road and the NYPD later discovered the car abandoned on Targee Street in Staten Island. The driver is still at large, Ortiz said.

There were no reports of injuries, according to FOXNY. Several lanes were closed following the incident but have reopened, CBS New York reports.

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