A man is dead after police shot him during a violent incident inside NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Park Slope on Thursday night, according to police.<\/p>\n
\tInvestigators say the incident began just before 5:30 p.m., when multiple 911 calls came in reporting a violent man armed with a knife inside the hospital. Police say the man was already an admitted patient.<\/p>\n
\tOfficers responded to the eighth floor, where doctors, nurses and hospital security told them the patient had barricaded himself inside a room. Police say the man had cut himself, hurt other people and was threatening to kill a hospital security guard and another patient who were trapped inside the room with him.<\/p>\n
\tAccording to police, officers saw blood on the walls, the floor and splattered across the door. They say officers spent several minutes giving repeated verbal commands for the man to drop a makeshift sharp object.<\/p>\n
\tPolice say officers first tried using Tasers, but they were not effective. When the man advanced toward officers while still holding the weapon, police say they fired their guns.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe subject then advanced towards the officers again, still with the weapon in his hand,\u201d said the commanding officer of Patrol Borough South during a news conference. \u201cOfficers again deployed tasers, but the deployments were not effective. Officers then discharged their weapons, and the subject was struck. He was pronounced deceased a short time later.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe weapon was recovered at the scene, and police say the entire incident was captured on officers\u2019 body-worn cameras.<\/p>\n
\tA hospital visitor, Cheryl Wallace, said she was inside the building when the situation escalated.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cI heard shots. There was a scuffle prior to the shots, and then they made all of us hunker down in the room,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cIt\u2019s a lil scary.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tPolice say three people were treated by hospital staff. No conditions or identities have been released.<\/p>\n
\tThis was the first police-involved shooting of the year and the first during Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s term. hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is dead after police shot him during a violent incident inside NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-94883","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\/94883","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=94883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}