a press conference<\/a> as 54-year-old Wei Chan.\n<\/p>\nShe said the shooting occurred in the stairwell of a building at 126 Ludlow Street, where officers were responding to multiple 911 calls for an assault in progress at 4:06 p.m EDT.<\/p>\n
Officers arrived at the building to find a trail of blood leading up the staircase where they encountered Chan descending and armed with the large knife.<\/p>\n
The officers repeatedly commanded the suspect to show his hands and drop the weapon, then discharged their service weapons. Eager said the suspect “did engage them with a large butcher knife” as he descended the stairs.<\/p>\n
Emergency services transported Chan to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead, she said.<\/p>\n
It was unclear how many rounds were fired, but Eager said the shooting was captured by body-worn cameras.<\/p>\n
“Officers entered the building, saw a trail of blood and responded without hesitation not knowing what was waiting for them as they went up the stairs,” she said. “Their actions are a reminder of how officers run toward danger and not away from it.”<\/p>\n
Eager said Cheung Chan, the 75-year-old father of the suspect, suffered a laceration to the head and was also transported to Bellevue Hospital for treatment and was expected to survive.<\/p>\n
Little information about the alleged slashing was made public, but Eager accused Wei Chan of being responsible for it.<\/p>\n
Eager said the suspect had no known prior criminal history but that he had a “documented mental health history” with the NYPD.<\/p>\n
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he has been briefed on the shooting.<\/p>\n
“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,” he said in a social media statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 16 (UPI) — New York City police officers fatally shot a butcher knife-wielding man in Manhattan’s Lower…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6442,75,84,83,9,24,63,27,4107],"class_list":["post-322890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-law-and-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322890","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=322890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}