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Albuquerque police said a man was hit by bullet fragments Sunday after an officer's weapon accidentally discharged.Police were investigating a burglary at an apartment complex in southeast Albuquerque early in the morning when an officer’s weapon accidentally discharged and bullet fragments hit an innocent bystander.Tamas Nadas was the officer involved in the incident, according to Tannier Tixier, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman.The department has released lapel video from the incident, and in it Nadas and another officer can be seen investigating an apartment with a broken window.The second officer asks for anyone inside to come to the front door.“Come to the front with your hands up free and clear,” the officer said.When no one comes to the front door, Nadas climbs in and clears the apartment. He can be seen climbing through the window and then a gunshot is heard.“What was that?” the officers are heard saying in the video.Nadas surveys the apartment for a few minutes until his superior officer shows up and radios what happened.“Yeah we got an A.D. Shots fired. It’s from us,” Nadas said.He then explains what happened.“I came in and this leg got caught up here, and because we clear houses my gun was right here and I fell down," Nadas said.Nadas continues discussions with his superior officer until he hears radio traffic.“I have one male in the apartment ... the one below -- and it looks like he's got blood to the neck, I can't see what it's from,” another officer can be heard saying.“He's got blood? Oh my God,” Nadas said.Nadas then rushes down to the ground floor apartment to check on the man, who was later taken to the hospital after bullet fragments hit his neck. The video ends shortly after the man is seen sitting on the couch with blood dripping down his back.Mobile users: Tap for videoNadas made headlines earlier this year in April after he bought 20 homeless men food when electricity in their shelter went out. He’s been with the department since 2013.No external safeties exist on APD-issued weapons, according to Tixier.