{"id":94535,"date":"2026-01-09T06:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/94535\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T06:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:37:07","slug":"nyc-road-rage-suspect-shot-dead-in-altercation-with-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/94535\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC road rage suspect shot dead in altercation with cops: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who fired at police during a road rage incident was shot and killed by officers in Manhattan on Thursday night, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a road rage incident just before 11 p.m. on Bedford Street in the West Village, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38136769\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/police-involved-shooting-3-bedford-118541378.jpg\" alt=\"A man was shot and killed by officers in Manhattan after he fired at police during a road rage incident on Thursday night.\" class=\"wp-image-38136769\"  \/>A man was shot and killed by officers in Manhattan after he fired at police during a road rage incident on Thursday night. Kevin C Downs forThe NY Post<\/p>\n<p>During an altercation, the man involved shot at officers \u2014 prompting cops to return fire,\u00a0sources added.<\/p>\n<p>He was struck by gunfire and pronounced dead in the aftermath of the chaotic scene, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who fired at police during a road rage incident was shot and killed by officers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,57,9,24,63,103,242,17689,3980,58,2380],"class_list":{"0":"post-94535","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-police-shootings","17":"tag-road-rage","18":"tag-shootings","19":"tag-us-news","20":"tag-west-village"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94535","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=94535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}