{"id":341867,"date":"2026-09-09T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341867\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:16:15","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-attorney-general-opens-investigation-into-deadly-police-shooting-on-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341867\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Deadly Police Shooting On Brooklyn Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The attorney general&#8217;s office has opened an investigation into a fatal shooting on the Brooklyn Bridge earlier in the month. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The shooting happened on Sep. 4 just before 3:30 a.m. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police responded to a man who was observed walking on the bridge&#8217;s cables. It was reported that officers attempted to talk to the man and remove him from the bridge. The man was holding a knife. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It was reported by police the man said &#8220;I want to die. I want you to kill me.\u201d While holding the knife. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">After an hour of officers trying to remove the man. He approached an officer with the knife and was fatally shot by officers. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The man\u2019s identity has not been released. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New York Attorney General\u2019s Office of Special will determine whether fatal force was justified. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The attorney general&#8217;s office has opened an investigation into a fatal shooting on the Brooklyn Bridge earlier in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-341867","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\/341867","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=341867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}