{"id":322855,"date":"2026-08-17T03:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322855\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:27:28","slug":"mayor-mamdani-reacts-to-fatal-police-involved-shooting-in-nyc-tragic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322855\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani reacts to fatal police-involved shooting in NYC: ‘Tragic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> reacted to the police-involved shooting in which NYPD officers fatally shot an alleged knife-wielding man.<\/p>\n

54-year-old Wei Chan was shot and killed by officers<\/a> responding to a reported assault on Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Police said Chan had a large knife in his hand as he descended towards officers on a bloody staircase inside the apartment building. Officers issued multiple commands for Chung to drop the knife before fatally shooting him, police said.<\/p>\n

\"\"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

The mayor, who is on vacation upstate, took to social media<\/a> to comment on the incident, calling the confrontation \u201ctragic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chan\u2019s 75-year-old father was injured as well, with lacerations to his head, according to police.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am wishing him a full and speedy recovery,\u201d Mamdani added. As with every incident in which NYPD officers discharge their weapons, there will be an internal investigation, and body-worn camera footage of the incident will be released.<\/p>\n

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Assistant Chief Melissa Eger said the 54-year-old son had no criminal record,\u00a0but has a \u201cdocumented mental health history\u201d with the NYPD. <\/p>\n

Neither NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch nor Attorney General Letitia James had commented on the shooting as of Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

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 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Mayor Zohran Mamdani reacted to the police-involved shooting in which NYPD officers fatally shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-322855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","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\/322855","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=322855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}