{"id":325521,"date":"2026-08-20T02:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325521\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:38:45","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-officers-who-fatally-shot-homicide-suspect-in-flatbush-will-not-face-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325521\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Officers Who Fatally Shot Homicide Suspect In Flatbush Will Not Face Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The officers who fatally shot a homicide suspect in Flatbush will not face prosecution, according to New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 Office of Special Investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say members of NYPD\u2019s Brooklyn North Warrant Squad responded to 38-year-old Vilmond Jean-Baptiste&#8217;s apartment on Sept. 13, 2024. to serve him a warrant. The encounter quickly took a violent turn, which was captured on body-cam video.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers found Jean-Baptiste in a shower, wielding a knife. He refused repeated orders from officers to drop the weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say one officer yelled, &#8220;you will get tased or shot!\u201d In response, Baptiste threw a bottle from the shower at the officers and continued to clutch the knife. Investigators say a sergeant then unsuccessfully deployed a taser.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jean-Baptiste emerged from the shower and advanced toward the officers with the knife. Three officers fired their weapons, striking Jean-Baptiste. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/nypd-officers-fatally-shoot-homicide-suspect-armed-with-knife-in-flatbush\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On the day of the incident, <\/a>police told News 12 that Jean-Baptiste was arrested in 2015 for reckless endangerment and was a person of interest in two separate homicides, involving three people.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The AG&#8217;s OSI release about the investigations findings stated, in part, &#8220;&#8230;given the law and the evidence, a prosecutor would not be able to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt at trial that the officers\u2019 use of deadly physical force against Mr. Jean-Baptiste was justified, and therefore OSI determined that criminal charges would not be pursued in this matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The officers who fatally shot a homicide suspect in Flatbush will not face prosecution, according to New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-325521","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\/325521","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=325521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}