A man is in stable condition after being shot by police early Monday morning in Harlem. The man is currently in custody at Harlem Hospital. His name has not been released, and as of 6 p.m. Monday, no charges have been filed.
Surveillance video shows the moments before police shot the knife-wielding suspect outside a supermarket.
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A man is in stable condition at Harlem Hospital after being shot by police early Monday morning
Police said the incident started at around 1:15 a.m. when a 53-year-old man went into the City Fresh supermarket on Third Avenue near East 121st Street and got into a verbal dispute
His name has not been released and no charges have been filed
“I see every day the guy,” Victor Savala said. “But I don’t know what happened. He do this last night. I don’t know.”
Police said the incident started at around 1:15 a.m. when a 53-year-old man went into the City Fresh supermarket on Third Avenue near East 121st Street and got into a verbal dispute.
Store workers told the NYPD he got angry, and officers had to physically remove him from the store.
Savala, who says he has worked at City Fresh for nearly a decade, alleges that the suspect was initially trying to steal something in the store. It is something Savala claims the suspect, who lives nearby, has done in the past.
The video shows the man after he returned to the store about 15 minutes later with a kitchen knife, banging on the window.
Police said workers locked the doors and called 911.
“The officers gave multiple verbal commands to drop the knife and attempted to create physical distance between himself and the subject,” NYPD inspector of Manhattan North, Andrew Natiw, said. “But the subject quickly advanced toward the officers with the knife extended out. The subject failed to comply with these verbal commands and got within close proximity of the officers when one of the officers discharged the firearm.”