{"id":116843,"date":"2026-01-29T23:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116843\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:58:32","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116843\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD Thursday released the body camera footage from a <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/police-shoot-kill-man-during-violent-incident-inside-brooklyn-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting<\/a> at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital earlier this month that left former firefighter and police officer Michael Lynch dead. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the incident began just before 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 8, when multiple 911 calls came in reporting Lynch, 62, was violent and armed with a blade inside the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows officers responding to a bathroom on the eighth floor, where investigators said Lynch barricaded himself inside the room with an older patient and a security guard with a makeshift weapon. Lynch was fatally shot by police.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Montgomery, the family&#8217;s attorney, <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/family-demands-answers-after-police-fatally-shoot-man-inside-brooklyn-methodist-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously told News 12<\/a> that Lynch was not a violent man and had no history of mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing to suggest that this wasn&#8217;t a loving father and husband who had dedicated his entire life to service,&#8221; Montgomery said.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that he was already an admitted patient. It&#8217;s unclear why he was admitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD Thursday released the body camera footage from a shooting at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital earlier this month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[46135,128,9,24,44211,63,22878,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-116843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-body-cam-footage","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork-presbyterian-brooklyn-methodist-hospital","tag-nyc","tag-police-involved-shooting","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116843","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=116843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}