{"id":181327,"date":"2026-03-31T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181327\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:14:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-youre-gonna-have-to-put-a-bullet-in-me-officers-involved-in-fatal-shooting-of-knife-wielding-man-will-not-face-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181327\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | \u2018You\u2019re gonna have to put a bullet in me.\u2019 Officers involved in fatal shooting of knife-wielding man will not face prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The officers involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/man-shot-and-killed-by-police-in-brownsville-after-allegedly-charging-at-officers-with-a-knife\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatal shooting<\/a> of a knife-wielding man in Brownsville will not be prosecuted, according to a report released by New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 Office of Special Investigations.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/new-bodycam-footage-shows-moment-nypd-officers-shot-brooklyn-man-armed-with-knife\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Body camera footag<\/a>e of the May 13, 2025, incident shows the moments leading up to the death of 25-year-old Damon Louther, who was seen pulling a knife from his waistband and charging towards the officers inside an apartment building at 108 Christopher Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The officers responded to a 911 call of a domestic dispute that afternoon and were met by a woman inside the building\u2019s lobby, who said the father of her children was threatening to kill her.<\/p>\n<p>When the officers traveled upstairs, Louther was in the hallway holding a large knife. Investigators say he charged toward the officers, stating, \u201cYou\u2019re gonna have to put a bullet in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One officer deployed a taser and struck Louther, but he was able to remove the tongs and continue toward them.<\/p>\n<p>The second officer then fired his gun, striking Louther.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The AG\u2019s investigation into the incident, \u201c&#8230;concluded that a prosecutor would not be able to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt at trial that the officers\u2019 use of deadly physical force was justified under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The officers involved in the fatal shooting of a knife-wielding man in Brownsville will not be prosecuted, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[393,26065,98,100,99,6616,46998,9,24,63,22878,73138],"class_list":{"0":"post-181327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-attorney-general","9":"tag-attorney-general-investigation","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-brownsville","14":"tag-knife","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-police-involved-shooting","19":"tag-tasers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181327","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=181327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}