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Police officers fatally shoot man holding gun in Brooklyn: NYPD
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Ramsey Khalifeh
Published May 12, 2024
Modified May 12, 2024
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Police officers shot and killed a 33-year-old man in Brooklyn early Sunday after he was spotted pointing a gun at another man on the street, according to NYPD officials.
NYPD Chief of Department Jeff Maddrey said during a news conference the officers were driving in their patrol car in East Flatbush around 1:15 a.m. when they saw the man with the gun at East 52nd Street and Church Avenue.
Maddrey said the man, who was later identified as Brooklyn resident Christian Emile, started to run off when the officers ordered him to drop his weapon, and that one of the officers “momentarily stunned” him with a taser.
“The male got back up, he still had the gun in his hand," said Maddrey. "He runs back on the sidewalk. The officers give further commands to the male to drop the gun and they fire their weapons.”
Emile died of his wounds at Kings County Hospital. NYPD officials did not say how many times he was shot.
Police set up markings to identify 10 bullet casings after the shooting while the entire block of Church Avenue was blocked off. A fire truck was on the scene spraying water on the road where the man was shot.
Maddrey said a bystander may have also been grazed by the officers’ bullets.
“About an hour and half after this incident occurred, another male walked into a local hospital with a graze wound and he said he was in the vicinity of this area,” he said. “So this will be part of the investigation to see if this male is actually hit at this location.”
Tayar Alzuvidi, the co-owner of Red Sea Food Market, a bodega on the block of the shooting, said his employee was grazed by a bullet. The gunfire destroyed the shop's glass door and cracked one of its windows.
Gunfire from police officers appeared to shatter the glass door of the Red Sea Food Market on Church Avenue.
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The Rev. Terry Lee, who runs a church in the neighborhood, said he was worried "violence is really on the rise" in the area.
"I've been in this neighborhood since 1989, and we have seen so many shootings right across the aisle," said Lee. "We shoot the police, the police shoot and we shooting at each other."
Bahar Ostadan contributed reporting.
This story has been updated with new information.
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Ramsey Khalifeh is a transportation reporter on the NYC Accountability desk covering the largest transit system in the country. He was previously a general assignment reporter at Gothamist and worked on the Boston Globe's metro and copy desk. Got a tip? Email [email protected]
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