{"id":337973,"date":"2026-09-04T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337973\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:30:08","slug":"nyc-cops-shoot-knife-wielding-man-who-charged-at-them-on-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337973\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC cops shoot knife-wielding man who charged at them on Brooklyn Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police shot and killed a man on the Brooklyn Bridge after he charged at them with a knife early Friday, according to sources, snarling the morning commute.<\/p>\n<p>Officers had responded to someone in need and found the knife-wielding man climbing the cables, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>He lunged at them and police opened fire, killing him, according to the sources. The NYPD did not immediately confirm the details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40661729\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nypd-closed-walkway-brooklyn-bridge-139571435.jpg\" alt=\"Two NYPD officers stand by a barrier on the closed walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge.\" class=\"wp-image-40661729\"\/>The NYPD closed the walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge on Friday, September 4, 2026, after a suicidal man approached officers with a knife. William Farrington<\/p>\n<p>All Brooklyn-bound lanes were closed beginning around 4:15 a.m. and remained closed as of 7:30 a.m., according to 511NY.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD warned people to avoid the area and to expect delays \u201cdue to ongoing police activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional information on the incident was not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police shot and killed a man on the Brooklyn Bridge after he charged at them with a knife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11198,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,242,58],"class_list":["post-337973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-police-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337973","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=337973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}