A barricaded man armed with a shotgun was shot by police Saturday after a fiery explosion at a Queens home where two family members were later found dead, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Police said the incident began with a 911 call reporting shots fired at a home on Ocean Crest Boulevard. The caller, identified as the suspect’s wife, told dispatchers that her husband was armed, had a history of mental illness and had allegedly said, “Kill them.”<\/p>\n
According to police, the woman fled the home after hearing gunfire and seeing a body on a bed. She then called 911 and warned responding officers that her husband had a shotgun.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to the home and spent time attempting to communicate with the suspect while emergency crews were staged nearby, authorities said.<\/p>\n
At about 12:15 p.m., a “fiery explosion” erupted from the residence, police said. Within seconds, the suspect exited the home wearing a vest and carrying a shotgun. Officers gave repeated verbal commands for him to raise his hands and drop the weapon, according to investigators.<\/p>\n
Police then discharged their firearms, striking the man, who was taken into custody. He was transported to Jamaica Hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition, officials said.<\/p>\n
Investigators are still determining the cause of death for the two family members who died.<\/p>\n
As the home became engulfed in flames, officers evacuated nearby residences as a precaution, police said.<\/p>\n
The suspect was identified by police as 33-year-old Keagan Thompson. Authorities said he has no prior criminal history. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A barricaded man armed with a shotgun was shot by police Saturday after a fiery explosion at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-305651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/305651","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=305651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}