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Police say 50-year-old Robert Morales fired a single shot and hit Samuel Salters, 49, in the shoulder.

A State Parole Department spokesman says Morales was there for a scheduled meeting.

Salters was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was recovering late Friday.

Morales was tackled by another parole officer and taken into custody.

As Morales was brought in court Friday, he told reporters, "Unfortunately he ain't dead. That was the plan."

"His parole officer came out, told him to get him to go back there and he went back there,” said witness Terrence Colfield. “Two or three minutes later, gunshots go off. The first thing, I didn't even know what it was until I looked back and saw the other parole officers responding, guns out and all that."

Police say Morales was convicted of second-degree murder in 1979 and paroled in 2002.

He was now being held without bail late Friday.

The incident has sparked renewed calls for metal detectors in parole offices. The parole officers' union says it has been asking for them for several years.

While the New York State Division of Parole declined to comment directly on the incident, a spokesperson did say that there are 40 reporting parole offices around the state without metal detectors and that local police precincts also do not have detectors.

Governor David Paterson directed the Division of Parole and the Office of General Services on Friday to review security measures at state parole offices and to provide recommendations for increasing security.