{"id":322814,"date":"2026-08-17T01:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322814\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:44:22","slug":"knife-wielding-man-shot-and-killed-by-police-on-lower-east-side-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322814\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife-wielding man shot and killed by police on Lower East Side: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tSpencer Gustafson and Derick Waller<\/p>\n<p>\t\t4 hours ago\n<\/p>\n<p>LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (PIX11) \u2014 One man is dead after police shot him inside a Lower East Side apartment building, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>Police said multiple 911 calls were made for an ongoing assault on Ludlow Street just after 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tStay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, officers saw a trail of blood leading up the stairwell inside the apartment building. Police said a man, identified as 54-year-old Wei Chan, was armed with a butcher knife descending the staircase towards officers.<\/p>\n<p>The photo of the weapon retrieved at the scene resembles a meat cleaver.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"720\" width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/KNIFE-LES.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4496790\" \/>The knife police say 54-year-old Wei Chan was armed with at the time of the shooting inside a Ludlow Street apartment building. (Credit: NYPD)<\/p>\n<p>Officers made multiple commands for Chan to drop the knife before discharging their firearms, striking him. Chan was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died from his injuries, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear how many shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p>Chan\u2019s 75-year-old father is said to have had lacerations to his head and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. He is expected to be okay, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Chief Melissa Eger said the 54-year-old had no criminal record, but has a \u201cdocumented mental health history\u201d with the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tDiscover more local reporting on our homepage\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four responding officers were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is under investigation, but police believe it was domestic in nature.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was recorded on body-worn cameras, according to Eger.<\/p>\n<p>Amber, an English witness visiting New York City, was having a drink with her family as the incident unfolded nearby.<\/p>\n<p>She said that police emergency crews wheeled someone out on a stretcher while seemingly performing CPR on the way to the ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know what was going on. It was a bit scary, to be honest,\u201d Amber told PIX11 News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a New York story for you, I guess,\u201d another witness from Brazil visiting New York on her honeymoon told PIX11 News. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looked really serious,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Gustafson is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered New York state and city news since 2023. See more of his work <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/spencer-gustafson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer Gustafson and Derick Waller 4 hours ago LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (PIX11) \u2014 One man is dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-322814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322814","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=322814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}