{"id":77131,"date":"2025-12-21T14:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/77131\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T14:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:49:15","slug":"nypd-cop-shoots-kills-man-charging-at-police-with-box-cutter-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/77131\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD cop shoots, kills man charging at police with box cutter in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/svb6b10gi5hmno3t.jpg\" alt=\"Police shot, kill man wielding box cutter in Queens: NY Weekend Update\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; An NYPD officer shot and killed a man with a box cutter as he charged at police, officials said during a press conference early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Timeline:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera said that around 12:25 a.m., officers responded to a 911 call placed about a fight between a man and his 29-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Rivera said the 29-year-old&#8217;s parents escorted officers into their Far Rockaway apartment building, where they found the son in a hallway with a box cutter in his hand.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The father and son then engaged in a physical altercation before the father retreated behind officers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police gave the 29-year-old man multiple commands to drop his weapon, Rivera said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">That&#8217;s when the man charged at officers with the box cutter in hand. One officer discharged her Taser while another fired her gun, striking the 29-year-old. He was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The entire incident was recorded on body camera, according to Rivera.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police have not identified the 29-year-old man who was shot and killed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article is based on reporting from an NYPD press conference.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/queens\/the-rockaways\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rockaways<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8211; An NYPD officer shot and killed a man with a box cutter as he charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[850,9,24,12,56,63,122,124,123,38592,618],"class_list":["post-77131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-the-rockaways","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77131","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=77131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}