{"id":322822,"date":"2026-08-17T02:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322822\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:02:13","slug":"nypd-officers-shoot-kill-man-with-butchers-knife-in-lower-east-side-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322822\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD officers shoot, kill man with butcher’s knife in Lower East Side apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK – NYPD<\/a> officers shot and killed a man<\/a> they said was armed with a butcher’s knife inside an apartment building on the Lower East Side Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

NYPD shooting\u00a0 <\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

The shooting happened around 4 p.m. at a building near the intersection of Ludlow and Rivington Streets.<\/p>\n

Officers were called out to the building for reports of an assault. When they got there, they said they found a blood trail on the stairs. Officers followed the blood trail, and found a man, identified as 54-year-old Wei Chan, who they said was armed with a butcher’s knife.<\/p>\n

\"NYPD \"NYPD <\/p>\n

According to the department, officers ordered Chan to show his hands multiple times, and he refused. That’s when officers shot Chan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wei Chan was taken to a nearby hospital where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Dig deeper:<\/p>\n

After the shooting, officers said they found a person upstairs in the apartment building who had a gash on their head. Police identified him as 75-year-old Cheung Chan, Wei Chan’s father. Paramedics took Cheung Chan to the hospital, and he is expected to survive.<\/p>\n

What we don’t know:<\/p>\n

The NYPD is still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n

The Source: Information in this story is from the NYPD.<\/p>\n

Lower East Side<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>NYPD<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK – NYPD officers shot and killed a man they said was armed with a butcher’s knife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[850,358,75,9,24,12,56,63,103,848,122,124,123,618],"class_list":["post-322822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-lower-east-side","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-organization","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322822","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=322822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}