{"id":113222,"date":"2026-01-26T20:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113222\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:57:24","slug":"knife-wielding-man-shot-by-police-inside-nyc-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113222\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife-Wielding Man Shot By Police Inside NYC Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUEENS, NY \u2014 Police shot a knife-wielding man who lunged at them inside a home in Queens Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened outside a home on Parsons Boulevard near 85th Avenue in Briarwood around 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the scene for an \u201cemotionally disturbed person\u201d at the home. <\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old man was given repeated warnings to drop the knife. A family member even attempted to restrain the man but was unsuccessful, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The armed male was able to push through a closed door and continued to push toward the officers with the kitchen knife in hand. At this point, the officers discharged their weapons at the armed male,&#8221; Assistant Chief Christopher Mcintosh, commanding officer of the NYPD&#8217;s Patrol Borough Queens South, said. <\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old man was shot multiple times and was taken to Jamaica Medical Center in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/2015867466933506356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2015867466933506356%7Ctwgr%5E04cf37f812a12ed5d6141f615fda86af9b757ce8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7ny.com%2Fpost%2Fqueens-police-involved-shooting-man-armed-knife-shot-briarwood-nyc%2F18477903%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">social media post<\/a> said he&#8217;d been briefed on the shooting and was grateful to &#8220;the first responders who put themselves on the line each day to keep our communities safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NYPD is assessing the situation, and we are committed to keeping New Yorkers informed as we learn more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the shooting remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 Police shot a knife-wielding man who lunged at them inside a home in Queens Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-113222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113222","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=113222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}