NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police fatally shot a man wielding a sharp object who barricaded himself in a Brooklyn hospital room Thursday.
The incident happened around 5:30 p.m. at the NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Assistant Chief Charles Minch said.
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