A man was gunned down by New York City police on Sunday, December 13, after shooting into the crowd gathered for a Christmas carol concert outside St John the Divine’s Cathedral in Manhattan.
No one in the public was affected by the shots, said New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea. Three police officers who intervened at the scene fired fifteen times in the direction of the man, whose identity was not communicated, hitting him at least once in the head, said Dermot Shea.
Police found two handguns on the spot and a nearby bag containing a full tank of gasoline, ropes, cable and many knives, he added. Between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, a transition under high tension
“Take me down, kill me!” “
A spokeswoman for the New York City Police Department had earlier said that officers used their guns after the man began shooting.
An AFP journalist who witnessed the scene reported that the man fired in front of this church as a few hundred people began to disperse after the chanting ended. “I heard two or three detonations”, she said, adding:
“I looked up and maybe ten meters from me on the steps there was a guy pulling […] I saw the flames coming out of the cannon, I started to run, to save my skin. “
Martha Stolley, another witness, estimated that the man fired eight or ten times before he was shot by police. “He was shooting without aiming”, she told AFP, adding that the man was shouting: “Take me down, kill me!” “.
