Cops Shoot Three People Across NYC In Single Day: NYPD

NEW YORK CITY — NYPD officers shot three men, one fatally, across New York City in the span 12 violent hours Thursday, police said.

The police shootings began about 1:15 p.m. when cops squared off with a 78-year-old man inside his Bed-Stuy apartment who, authorities said, raised a gun at officers while they responded to a reported burglary in the home.

The elderly man — who was known as “Dad” to neighbors — ignored officers’ cries of “no,” prompting them to shoot, said NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey. He said the tense encounter was captured on body-camera footage.

“He clearly charged at officers with his gun,” Maddrey said. “We don't know why.”

Officers shot the man, who died later in a local hospital, police said.

Gunshot echoes from the fatal shooting barely stopped reverberating when officers in Queens shot another man who police said threatened them with a weapon.

Cops responded to a call about an unhinged man had stabbed a 40-year-old security guard in the stomach inside a Jamaica church about 4 p.m., police said.

When police arrived, they came face-to-face with the man, who waved a knife in front of officers, authorities said. Two cops fired two shots each at the man, hitting him twice, police said.

But the man kept waving the knife and only let it go after cops used a Taser on him, authorities said.

The knife-wielding man, security guard and police were taken to nearby hospitals, and charges are pending, police said.

It wouldn’t be the last time an NYPD officer would fire a gun at a man with a weapon that day, police said.

Straphangers at a Bronx subway station at Broadway and West 238th Street nervously dialed 911 about 8 p.m. to report a man with a gun, said Michael Kemper, the NYPD’s transit bureau chief.

“The call is described as a man acting crazy, waving a gun at a crowd, which included children,” he said.

Cops scrambled up to the elevated 1 train platform and saw a man apparently holding a gun, Kemper said. The man refused to drop the weapon and began walking along the train’s catwalk toward 231st Street, he said.

Police followed the man and also walked up from 231st Street, effectively sandwiching him, Kemper said.

After cops told him multiple times to drop the gun, an officer fired one round that hit the man in the hand, causing him to drop it, Kemper said.

Medics took the man to a local hospital, Kemper said. In a tweet, NYPD officials later identified the weapon as an “imitation pistol.”

Patch writers Coral Murphy Marcos and Emily Rahhal contributed to this report.