Police Shoot Machete-Wielding Brooklyn Man In Crotch: Reports

BROOKLYN — A man brutally beat his therapist and pulled a machete and butcher knife on a cop who shot him in the groin area Tuesday, according to police and reports.

James Olla, 30, was arrested Tuesday just after 4:10 p.m. on charges linked to an afternoon of violence in downtown Brooklyn and outside his East New York home, according to the NYPD.

Olla stands accused of delivering "a rather nasty assault" on a 58-year-old woman — who the Daily News reports was his therapist — inside a building on Court and Remsen streets about 2:30 p.m, NYPD Chief of Patrol Jeffrey Maddrey said at a press conference.

The woman suffered substantial facial injuries., Maddrey said.

Maddrey did not confirm Olla's relationship to the woman but said he'd had an appointment to meet her on "some kind of business."

"He was going down there looking for help," Maddrey said.

Police arrived at Olla's home at New Lots and Snediker avenues less than two hours later, Maddrey said.

A uniformed lieutenant called out Olla's name, spurring Olla to stand with a machete in one hand and a butcher's knife in the other, police said.

"No," the officer called out, "put the knife down, put the knife down."

Olla kept walking toward the lieutenant, so he shot Olla in the groin, Maddrey said.

Officers called an ambulance and stabilized Olla's wound with a field trauma kit before he was taken to a local hospital, Maddrey said.

Investigators later discovered that Olla had assaulted one of his own family members and threatened a neighbor with a machete, Maddrey said.

Olla — who the Daily News reports suffers mental illness and lives with his mother and an aunt — was on federal probation for a non-violent crime, Maddrey noted.

He now faces multiple charges that include attempted assault on a police officer, menacing a police officer and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.