SOUTH OZONE PARK, Queens (WABC) — An investigation is underway Saturday morning after a woman was shot by police during a chaotic situation in Queens.
Police say they received multiple 911 calls about a break-in and stabbing at a home on 149th Street in South Ozone Park.
When police arrived, they say they tried knocking on the door but no one answered.
They said moments later a man shouted from a second floor window that he was stabbed by his uncle.
Then a woman opened a window on the third floor and tossed her keys to police.
Officers went inside to the third floor and that’s where they said they encountered a woman and two men struggling.
They separated as police told them to put their hands up.
“The female pointed with her left hand at one of the males across the room but did not raise her right hand, the officers continued to issue the same verbal commands, the female still did not comply and moved in the direction of the officers with a knife in her hand,” said NYPD Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera. “She was within several feet of the officers when an officer discharged his firearm, striking her. She fell to the ground, an officer deployed his taser and another officer recovered the knife.”
First responders rushed her to the hospital where doctors said she was stable.
Three other men were taken to the hospital with stab wounds.
Officers recovered two knives.
There is no word from police on what led to the stabbings.
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