{"id":322772,"date":"2026-08-16T23:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322772\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:36:51","slug":"police-say-they-shot-man-who-charged-them-while-wielding-a-butchers-knife-in-lower-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322772\/","title":{"rendered":"Police say they shot man who charged them while wielding a butcher&#8217;s knife in Lower Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway following a police shooting in Lower Manhattan on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said officers were responding to a report of a slashing when the shooting happened just after 4 p.m. inside an apartment building at 126 Ludlow St., between Delancy and Rivington streets. Police said a man wielding a butcher&#8217;s knife charged officers, prompting them to open fire.<\/p>\n<p>A knife was recovered at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear exactly how many shots were fired. The suspect was transported to a nearby hospital in an unknown condition.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are still in the early stages of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Please stay with CBS News New York for more on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway following a police shooting in Lower Manhattan on Sunday afternoon. The NYPD said officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,103,20873],"class_list":["post-322772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322772","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=322772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}