Cops shot and critically injured a knife-wielding maniac at a Manhattan apartment building Sunday afternoon, law-enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n
Officers were called to a home at 126 Ludlow St. on the Lower East Side over a domestic dispute when the man charged at cops with a large knife around 4 p.m,\u00a0 sources said.<\/p>\n
One of the cops fired a shot and gravely injured the man, according to the sources.<\/p>\n
EMTs responding to the scene of where a knife-wielding maniac was shot and critically injured by NYPD officers on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Aug. 16, 2026. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
First responders bringing the wounded man to an ambulance after the police shooting. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
Medics rushed the suspect to NYC Health + Hospitals, where he is listed in critical condition.<\/p>\n
A witness was also left wounded, according to sources. It\u2019s unclear what their condition was as of Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police recovered the knife at the scene, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n
NYPD officers investigating the scene of the incident at 126 Ludlow St. on Sunday. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n
The suspect allegedly charged at the cops with a knife. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n
Bystanders reacting to the police shooting on the Lower East Side. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops shot and critically injured a knife-wielding maniac at a Manhattan apartment building Sunday afternoon, law-enforcement sources said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3290,358,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,242,3980,58],"class_list":["post-322754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-domestic-violence","tag-lower-east-side","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-police-shootings","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322754","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=322754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}