Cop Shoots, Kills Machete-Wielding Man In Bronx Apartment: NYPD

THE BRONX, NY — An NYPD cop shot and killed a man in his Bronx apartment early Tuesday morning after he threatened a pair of officers with a machete, police said.

A team of officers from the NYPD's emergency service division came to the Brook Avenue apartment around 4:10 a.m. with a search warrant for guns and narcotics, the NYPD said.

Two of the cops, who were not wearing body cameras, went into the rear bedroom, where an unidentified man was waiting with a two-foot-long machete, police said. The cops told him to drop the weapon but he refused and continued approaching them, the NYPD said.

The lead cop fired one bullet into the man's chest, police said. The officers "immediately" called an ambulance and gave the wounded man aid before he was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Another older man who was in the apartment at the time was also taken to the hospital for observation, but wasn't hurt, police said. Neither of the officers, whom the NYPD has not identified, were injured.

Police found the man's gun inside the third-floor apartment, which is still a crime scene and will continue to be searched, the NYPD said.

The NYPD's Force Investigation Division is investigating the shooting, a police spokesman said.

(Lead image: An NYPD cop shot and killed a man in the Bronx who was wielding this two-foot-long machete. Photo from the NYPD)