{"id":39066,"date":"2025-11-14T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39066\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:44:09","slug":"man-shot-dead-by-nypd-in-manhattan-after-allegedly-threatening-new-yorkers-with-gun-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39066\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead by NYPD in Manhattan after allegedly threatening New Yorkers with gun: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police shot and killed an allegedly armed man in a confrontation on the Upper East Side Thursday night, according to law enforcement sources and authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Cops received a 911 call just after 7 p.m. about a man who was spotted waving a gun at people near East 107th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan, according to sources and the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.43618513;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37663220\" width=\"847\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/police-scene-nypd-officer-shot-115373676.jpg\" alt=\"A gun and an orange traffic cone lie on the ground next to a large pool of blood.\" class=\"wp-image-37663220\"  \/>A gun is seen at the bloody crime scene on the Upper East Side where police fatally shot an armed man. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37663223\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/police-scene-nypd-officer-shot-115372835.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD Police Crime Scene Unit van at the scene of a police-involved shooting.\" class=\"wp-image-37663223\"  \/>Cops received a 911 call just after 7 p.m. about a man who was spotted waving a gun at people near East 107th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan, according to sources and the NYPD. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>Less than 20 minutes later, cops discovered the reported gun-touting assailant a few blocks down by East 96th Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who matched the description provided by 911 callers, allegedly fired a round at the officers, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The cops discharged their guns and returned fire, striking him once in the chest and once in the hip in a confrontation, according to sources and police.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, authorities added.<\/p>\n<p>He was later pronounced dead, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>A firearm was recovered on the scene, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police shot and killed an allegedly armed man in a confrontation on the Upper East Side Thursday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,57,9,24,63,103,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-39066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066","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=39066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}