7:40 p.m.<\/p>\n
NYPD officials said Monday evening that two officers shot a 49-year-old man who had pointed a gun at customers inside a Bronx deli.<\/p>\n
At a news conference, detectives say suspect, identified as Victor Soto, was arguing with several people inside Sammy Gourmet Deli on Bainbridge Avenue and East 194th Street around 3:20 p.m.<\/p>\n
They said surveillance cameras captured the incident both inside and outside of the deli.<\/p>\n
Soto then allegedly took out a gun and pointed it at the people inside, who then ducked for cover.<\/p>\n
Police say Soto was inside the deli harassing people prior to the event.<\/p>\n
They say the suspect then left the deli and went northbound with the gun.<\/p>\n
Soto then violently slammed the gun into a glass window of the deli, according to detectives.<\/p>\n
Two officers arrived on scene and asked Soto to drop the weapon, but he did not comply and pointed the gun at them.<\/p>\n
Officials then say an exchange of gunfire happened between the officers and Soto.<\/p>\n
The suspect then opened fire while continuing to go northbound in front of civilians before the officers struck him.<\/p>\n
Soto was taken to the hospital and was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n
Detectives say Soto had eight prior arrests, with several of them being in criminal possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n
The responding officers were taken to the hospital for an evaluation.<\/p>\n
Detectives added that the officers’ body cameras also captured the incident.<\/p>\n
5:35 p.m.<\/p>\n
Police say to expect road closures and delays in the area of the shooting.<\/p>\n
5:23 p.m.<\/p>\n
Police sources say shots were fired at an officer and officers returned fire. They say no officer was struck during the incident. A firearm was recovered.<\/p>\n
5:20 p.m.<\/p>\n
Police say the incident happened just before 3:30 p.m. at 2657 Bainbridge Ave.<\/p>\n
5:17 p.m.<\/p>\n
Police sources say one person was injured in a police-involved shooting in the Bronx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7:40 p.m. NYPD officials said Monday evening that two officers shot a 49-year-old man who had pointed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-391815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391815","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=391815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}