A young man who threatened police with a gun that turned out to be fake was shot to death in a public housing building (NYCHA) in Queens yesterday mid-morning.
The 26-year-old victim had been involved in an argument with his brother at the home located on Beach 51st St. near Elizabeth Ave in Edgemere, according to the alcalde Eric Adams.
When officers arrived at a 4th-floor apartment at Ocean Bay Apartments around 10:30 a.m. Monday, a man let them into the home and they went to a back room to speak with the suspect, the sheriff said. NYPD Officer Jeffrey Maddrey.
“They had a conversation through the door for a few minutes, at which point the door opened,” Maddrey described. “Our members walk in the door and then the man points a firearm at them. Our officers gave orders to drop the weapon and then our officer shoots”.
The officers “secured the suspect,” who received shot in the stomachMaddrey said. They performed compressions on her chest while cutting her clothing to locate her wound and called emergency medical services.
A neighbor heard a “commotion” when police arrived at the apartment. “A few moments later I heard a lot of screaming and then: ‘He has a gun! He has a gun!’” He told him Daily News the man, who only wanted to be identified as Frank. “It was then that I heard three or four shots”.
Paramedics took the injured man to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition and he died at 11:57am yesterday. The officers were also taken to a hospital for evaluation, but no one was injured.
The suspect never fired and his gun appeared to be an imitationn, according to NYPD. A nearby school was closed for a short time during the emergency.
The New York Attorney General’s office must investigate the case, as happens in any incident in which a person is killed during an encounter with police.
Earlier this month, a teenager who had threatened to shoot himself was fatally shot by police who responded to his home in Long Island (NY).
In January, a man was killed in a shootout with police at a motel in South Brunswick, New Jersey. He was suspected of several serious crimes, including the robbery of a bishop of Brooklyn (NYC) during a religious service in 2022.
In December, a former inmate died after shooting police in Lower Manhattan who were looking for him on weapons and sexual assault charges. In January, a man slashed three NYPD officers with a machete while they were trying to arrest him for domestic violence in an apartment in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
2024-02-13 18:56:00
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