{"id":119179,"date":"2026-02-01T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119179\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:42:08","slug":"nypd-releases-body-cam-footage-of-fatal-police-involved-shooting-in-west-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119179\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD releases body-cam footage of fatal police-involved shooting in West Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NYPD released body-cam footage of the fatal police shooting<\/a> of a man who confronted officers with a pellet gun in the West Village.<\/p>\n

Officers Geslline Gonzalez and Christopher Rodriguez opened fire on 37-year-old Dimitry Zass after he leveled an air-powered pistol at police on Bedford St. near Sixth Ave. around 10:50 p.m. on Jan. 8, cops said.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

NYPD<\/p>\n

Police released an image of what they described as an imitation gun they said a man used in a confrontation with police in Greenwich Village. The person was shot and killed by cops. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

Zass was struck down as both officers fired a combined total of 26 rounds, said police.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed Zass to Bellevue Hospital<\/a>, where he died.<\/p>\n

The video released Thursday begins with CCTV footage captured shortly before the shooting, which shows Zass cruising through the West Village in his white BMW when he backs his car into a van on Bedford St<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both cars remain at the location, and the van\u2019s driver can be seen emerging from his vehicle to flag down an NYPD patrol car arriving at the scene, the footage shows.<\/p>\n

\"ScreengrabScreengrab from NYPD released body-cam footage of the fatal police shooting of a man who confronted officers with a pellet gun. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

As Officers Gonzalez and Rodriguez approach the BMW, the CCTV footage switches to another angle that shows Zass emerging from his car with the weapon in his hand. He was shortly thereafter hit by police gunfire.<\/p>\n

The footage recorded by the two cops\u2019 body cams starts as they emerge from the passenger\u2019s-side door of an NYPD squad car and approach Zass\u2019s BMW.<\/p>\n

\"ScreengrabScreengrab from NYPD-released body-cam footage of the fatal police shooting of a man who confronted officers with a pellet gun. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shot some shots at him,\u201d Gonzalez is heard speaking into the radio. \u201cUnknown if he got hit. He\u2019s on the floor. He still has the gun on him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDrop the gun! Drop the f\u2014ing gun!\u201d Rodriguez shouts.<\/p>\n

All police-involved fatal shootings are investigated by the state Attorney General.<\/p>\n

Zass, who lived with his parents in Great Kills, Staten Island, had allegedly attacked his father earlier in the week<\/a>, but had not been charged, police sources said.<\/p>\n

During a panicked 911 call, his mother claimed Zass was attacking his dad and that he had a gun, according to the sources. His parents were in the process of getting an order of protection against him when he was killed about 15 miles from his home.<\/p>\n

The deadly confrontation was the second police-involved shooting<\/a> to erupt in the city that night, occurring less than five hours after police shot and killed a former cop and FDNY lieutenant armed with a jagged shard at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, cops said.<\/p>\n

Police also unveiled body-cam footage from that shooting on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Officer Gonzalez joined the force in Jan. 2024. Her record shows no history of disciplinary actions, according her online NYPD profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez\u2019s history with the department was not immediately available. Both officers are assigned to Manhattan\u2019s 13th Precinct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD released body-cam footage of the fatal police shooting of a man who confronted officers with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-119179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119179","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=119179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}