{"id":363348,"date":"2026-10-03T01:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363348\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T01:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:08:51","slug":"drone-footage-captures-moment-police-fatally-shoot-knife-wielding-nut-as-he-lunges-at-them-from-atop-the-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363348\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone footage captures moment police fatally shoot knife-wielding nut — as he lunges at them from atop the Brooklyn Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYPD bodycam and drone footage released Friday reveal the final moments before a knife-wielding nut lunged at police and was shot <\/a>after an hour-long standoff on the Brooklyn Bridge last month.<\/p>\n

The footage captured<\/a> 41-year-old Chaun Bottom \u2014 who was spotted walking along the bridge cables around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 4 \u2014 as Detective Nicholas Giordani of the NYPD\u2019s Emergency Services Unit is seen climbing hundreds of feet above the East River and begging him to come down and drop his knife.<\/p>\n

NYPD drone footage captures the moment police fatally shoot a knife-wielding man as he lunges at them on the Brooklyn Bridge. NYPD<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s going on, man? What brought you up here,\u201d Giordani asks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s going on in your day that you think this is the only option you have?\u201d he says to Bottom.<\/p>\n

Giordani desperately pleads with Bottom for around 50 minutes, asking the menace hanging off the side of the bridge what brought him up there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the last place I want you to be right now, man. Whatever\u2019s going on in your life, we could talk about it, we could discuss it,\u201d Giordani is heard saying in the footage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to see you up here, I understand the view is nice but there\u2019s no reason to be up here right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chaun Bottom, 41, was spotted walking atop the bridge around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 4. NYPD<\/p>\n

At one point in the footage, the detective begs Bottom to come back toward the middle of the bridge rather than hanging off the side of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bottom\u2019s multi-tool knife was recovered from the scene. NYPD<\/p>\n

\u201cLook man, I know you don\u2019t know me, I get that, but I care about you more than you\u2019re gonna know and I plan on spending however much time I can to show you that,\u201d Giordani says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is stuff left, you have your whole life ahead of you,\u201d he pleads with Bottom. \u201cDon\u2019t say there\u2019s nothing left, yes there is, I promise you there is plenty ahead of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bottom lunged at police with a knife, prompting a sergeant to fire one shot. NYPD<\/p>\n

Toward the end of the encounter, Giordani spots Bottom\u2019s weapon and asks him to drop it if he steps back.<\/p>\n

The knife-wielding man is seen raising his weapon as he lunges toward the cop, with cops yelling at Bottom to \u201cdrop the knife.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sgt. Dennis Dooley, who was stationed on the bridge\u2019s roadbed, then fired one shot, which struck the maniac.<\/p>\n

Cops raced to get Bottom off the side of the bridge after he was shot and begged him to drop his weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Bottom said, \u2018I want to die, I want you to kill me,’\u201d according to NYPD ESU Chief Gerad V. Dowling. NYPD<\/p>\n

It was unclear from the footage what Bottom was telling the cop, but ESU Chief Gerard V. Dowling previously told reporters:\u00a0\u201cHe stated, \u2018I want to die, I want you to kill me, I have a bomb, you\u2019re going to make me do something bad to the cops.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NYPD said its Force Investigation Division will continue to investigate and analyze the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD bodycam and drone footage released Friday reveal the final moments before a knife-wielding nut lunged at police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1605,98,11198,100,99,57,9,24,63,103,8192,58,19038],"class_list":["post-363348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bridges","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-investigations","tag-us-news","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363348","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=363348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}