An accused slasher was fatally shot after he pulled out a 14-inch butcher knife and attacked an NYPD officer who stopped the suspect from trying to go through a backdoor at a Brooklyn precinct station house.
Credit – By Rocco Parascandola, John Annese, Julian Roberts-Grmela and Roni Jacobson Source New York Daily News
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- A man armed with a butcher knife tried to enter the NYPD’s 73rd Precinct stationhouse in Brooklyn early Sunday, slashing a uniformed officer in the face when she stopped him.
Officers pursued the suspect after a failed Taser deployment, and he lunged at another officer with the knife before multiple officers fatally shot him.
The injured officer, a six-year NYPD veteran, was treated at a hospital, and the incident was captured on body cameras.
NYPD cops shot a man to death after he tried to get inside a Brooklyn precinct stationhouse early Sunday and slashed an officer in the face for stopping him, police said.
The slasher tried to enter the 73rd Precinct stationhouse at East New York Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St. in Brownsville through a locked door in the front vestibule about 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, then circled around the building and tried to get in through a backdoor, police said.
When a uniformed officer stopped him and told him he needed to go around front if he wanted help, he whipped out a 14-inch butcher knife and attacked her, police said.