{"id":322812,"date":"2026-08-17T01:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322812\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:42:09","slug":"nypd-shoot-kill-man-with-butchers-knife-in-lower-east-side-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322812\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD shoot, kill man with butcher&#8217;s knife in Lower East Side confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) &#8212; Officers shot a man who ignored commands to drop a butcher knife when encountered by police on the Lower East Side, earlier this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened at 126 Ludlow Street around 4 p.m. Sunday. Officers responded to the scene after receiving multiple 911 calls about a person armed with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say when they arrived there was blood on the stairs and a man approaching them with a butcher&#8217;s knife. Authorities report officers told him multiple times to show his hands and drop the weapon. Officials say the man continued to head toward the officers with the knife, so they discharged firearms, striking him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect, 54-year-old Wei Chan, was taken to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chan&#8217;s father, 75-year-old Cheung Chan was taken to the hospital with a laceration to the head. He is expected to survive. The laceration came from his son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Several responding officers were taken to the hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) &#8212; Officers shot a man who ignored commands to drop a butcher knife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[121625,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-322812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-121625","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322812","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=322812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}