Police Fatally Shoot Armed Man In Brooklyn

EAST FLATBUSH, NY — Police fatally shot a man after he refused to drop his gun following a brief foot pursuit, NYPD Chief of Department Jeff Maddrey said during a press conference on Sunday.

Officers were patrolling in the vicinity of 52nd Street and Church Avenue at about 1:15 a.m when they spotted a man pointing a gun at another man, Maddrey said.

Orders to drop the weapon were ignored, and the unidentified man began to flee —that's when officers used a taser, Maddrey said at the press conference.

"One of the officers discharged their taser and the taser momentarily stunned the male. The male got back up, he still had the gun in his hand," the NYPD chief said.

When the man did not drop his weapon following additional requests from officers — they fired several rounds at the man, police officials said.

The man was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to Maddrey.

In addition, Maddrey said a second man may have been potentially wounded in the shooting.

The man walked into a local hospital with a graze wound, and he said he was in the vicinity of shooting. Officials will determine if the man was hit at the shooting location.