{"id":113034,"date":"2026-01-26T18:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113034\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:14:26","slug":"police-shoot-knife-wielding-man-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113034\/","title":{"rendered":"Police shoot knife-wielding man in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/screenshot-2026-01-26-124619.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">QUEENS &#8211; A man was shot by police in Jamaica, Queens Monday afternoon, officials say.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police said the incident happened after a man charged at officers with a large knife inside the vestibule of a building.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officers responded to a 911 call of an emotionally disturbed person at a home on Parsons Blvd. around 10:25 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">When officers arrived they encountered a disorderly 22-year-old man who displayed a large knife and advanced toward them inside the building\u2019s vestibule, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">One officer then discharged his firearm, striking the man multiple times in the body.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Emergency medical services responded to the scene, and the man was taken to a nearby hospital where he was listed in stable condition, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officers involved in the incident were also taken to a local hospital for treatment of minor injuries, including tinnitus.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/queens\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article QUEENS &#8211; A man was shot by police in Jamaica, Queens Monday afternoon, officials say. What we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[850,9,24,12,56,63,122,124,123,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-113034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}