NYPD officers fatally shot a 54-year-old man who police say advanced toward them with a butcher\u2019s knife inside a Lower East Side building Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to multiple 911 calls reporting an assault in progress at 126 Ludlow St. at about 4:06 p.m., NYPD Assistant Chief of Patrol Borough Manhattan South Melissa Eger said at a news conference Sunday evening. She said officers entered the building and saw a trail of blood leading up a staircase.<\/p>\n
As officers went upstairs, they encountered Wei Chan coming down the stairs with a large butcher\u2019s knife, Eger said. She said officers repeatedly ordered Chan to show his hands and drop the weapon, but he continued advancing toward them. Officers then opened fire and struck him, according to Eger.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers entered the building, saw a trail of blood and responded without hesitation, not knowing what was waiting for them as they went up the stairs,\u201d Eger said.<\/p>\n
Emergency medical workers took Chan to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Eger said. Police said the incident was captured on officers\u2019 body-worn cameras and a butcher\u2019s knife was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police identified the other person taken to Bellevue as Wei Chan\u2019s 75-year-old father, Cheung Chan. Eger said the father suffered a laceration to his head that police allege was caused by his son. He is expected to survive, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The FDNY said four members of service with minor injuries were also taken to NewYork-Presbyterian. Eger said responding officers were taken to a hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n
The NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division is investigating the shooting, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD officers fatally shot a 54-year-old man who police say advanced toward them with a butcher\u2019s knife inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-816274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}