Nassau County police officers shot and killed a Carle Place man who waved what appeared to be a shotgun at them on Wednesday, Nassau police said.

The weapon turned out to be a BB gun, police said.

The man was identified by police as James Rosano, 33, who lived in the Rushmore Avenue home with his parents. He appeared highly intoxicated and agitated during the incident, police said.

The suspect’s mother told police her son said, “Kiss me,” and indicated he was going to leave the house and die at the hands of the police, Homicide Squad Det. Capt. Stephen Fitzpatrick said at a news conference in Mineola on Wednesday.

Officers responded to a 911 call of a domestic disturbance involving a man who was intoxicated. The “very irate individual” was carrying what appeared to be a shotgun, Fitzpatrick said.

Rosano was given “numerous commands” to put the gun down before police fired, striking him once, Fitzpatrick said. The man died at a hospital.

The chain of events began at 12:20 a.m. when Rosano’s mother called police, saying her son was irate, Fitzpatrick said. She met the officer at the front door but his attention turned to Rosano, who was on his right. The officer, who “feared for his life,” pushed the mother inside the home to put her out of danger, according to Fitzpatrick.

Two officers pulled up on the scene and began issuing verbal commands to Rosano to drop the gun, police said.

Rosano ignored those commands, waving the BB gun at the officers, Fitzpatrick said.

One of the officers went to the next-door neighbor’s driveway and took a position behind a car about 6 to 7 feet from Rosano; Fitzpatrick said the man approached the officer and waved the weapon.

Rosano refused to comply and drop the weapon; the officer “became in fear for his safety” and it became “reasonable and necessary for that officer to discharge his weapon,” Fitzpatrick said.

The officer fired his gun one time, striking Rosano in the chest. The victim was transported to NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Fitzgerald said the officers described the scene as “dark and dimly lit.”

Detectives later determined Rosano’s weapon was a BB gun, a photo of which was posted at the news conference. The gun was identified in a police photo as a Crosman Legacy 1000 BB gun without a scope.

“At nighttime in the dark … you look at it and you tell me, if you could see anything different in what that gun is, and that was what was pointed at our officers,” Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said. “That was the threat they stopped.”

Rosano had prior arrests and felony charges including burglary, arson, assaults and DWIs, police said. He was most recently arrested on Monday and charged with assaulting his girlfriend, Fitzpatrick said.

His mother told police her son also had an extensive history of alcohol abuse and using controlled substances, and believed he was high on a controlled substance when she called 911, Fitzpatrick said. He said 911 calls were made about Rosano in 2010 and 2022 for depression, overdosing and intoxication.

The officers were also taken to a hospital for medical evaluation and were being treated by peer support.

The officers were wearing body cameras; those devices were turned over to the state’s attorney general’s office for an investigation.

Fatal police-involved shootings are examined by the attorney general.

Residents inside the home didn’t answer Wednesday morning while a Nassau police squad car was stationed outside.

Lawn crews worked on yards while neighbors passed the home walking their dogs. Many neighbors declined to speak with news crews about the shooting, but said the neighborhood is quiet.

Sebastian Rondau, 48, said he woke up at 2 a.m. and looked down the street where the home was surrounded by yellow police tape, police cars and two ambulances.

“It’s a great place to live and I don’t think anything like this happens in Carle Place,” Rondau said.

Tom Liodice, 41, lives two blocks away and said he moved in a few months ago. He said he didn’t know the family in the home.

“Everybody knows everybody; it seems very small townish,” Liodice said. “Nothing usually goes on here. It’s a quiet area.”

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