A man is dead after being shot by police in Mott Haven on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
Police say they arrived at 105 Willis Ave. around 6:45 a.m. to look for 44-year-old Lucien Colon. Police say he’s a known sex offender in New York State and has active bench and parole warrants.<\/p>\n
When officers got to the apartment door, Colon’s girlfriend opened the door and gave officers permission to enter. Police say they entered the bedroom and found Colon with a gun in his hand.<\/p>\n
Police asked him to show them his hands and he responded that he had a gun. Officers repeatedly asked him to step out of the room and he responded by saying, “It’s not going to happen.”<\/p>\n
Officers interacted with Colon for a minute and a half as they tried to de-escalate the situation. They gave him multiple commands to drop the weapon.<\/p>\n
One of the officers fired a shot and struck Colon in the face. EMS took him to NYC Health+Hospitals\/Lincoln, where he was pronounced dead. A firearm was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n
Some officers were also taken to an area hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n
Colon was on parole for a 2013 murder and was released in 2023. He was also found guilty of rape in 1997 and attempted murder in 1995.<\/p>\n
Colon\u2019s girlfriend spoke with News 12. She says he was a good guy with a good heart. He was just about to get tested to see if he was a match, so he could donate a kidney to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is dead after being shot by police in Mott Haven on Thursday morning. Police say they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,786,9,24,63,1096,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-183895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-fatal-shooting","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-shooting","14":"tag-the-bronx","15":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","16":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183895","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=183895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}