An incident yesterday morning in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, ended with NYPD officers fatally shooting a 28-year-old man following a domestic violence call. As reported by Gothamist, officers from the 67th Precinct responded to a 911 call from a 27-year-old woman who reported being harassed by a man she was seeking a restraining order against.
The confrontation escalated when the suspect, leaving the building as officers arrived, fled the scene, prompting a pursuit that ended at East 86th Street and Coventry Road. During the chase, police stated that the man was armed with a gun and did not comply with orders to drop the weapon. The NYPD provided this account amid an ongoing investigation into the exact nature of the relationship between the woman and the deceased man.
"After repeated warnings were given to drop his weapon, the subject did not comply with those orders and the subject was shot once in his chest," Assistant Chief Frank Giordano was quoted saying in a press conference covered by ABC7NY. The man was cuffed and then transported to Kings County Hospital in a patrol car where he was pronounced dead, despite officers' attempts at rendering aid which included remarks overheard by onlookers as "stay with me, stay with me" as his fingers were moving.
Recovered at the scene was a loaded revolver, with the NYPD asserting that the entire episode was caught on officers' body cameras. These recordings are under review by the NYPD's Force Investigation Division.
