In a Bronx housing development, cops shot a man threatening to use two kitchen knives against his neighbors. Around 9 p.m. last night police anwered a call about a disruption on the 18th floor of an apartment building on E. 149th Street. Residents told them a 33-year-old man—who lived a few floors down—banged on their door and threatened murder.
Police encountered the menacing man with his knives—one 12 inches long and one 11 inches, according to NY1—in the hallway of the 14th floor. Witnesses heard them order him to lay down his weapons in Spanish and English, but he held on, so one officer fired into his body. Still he kept advancing, reports the Times, so the cop shot again. Paramedics took him to the hospital, where he is now in stable condition. As for the policeman—who’s never before shot a civilian—he’s now on desk duty while his actions are reviewed. Recently another double-fisting slasher got in an altercation with cops, but she came away unscathed.
