VIDEO: Gunman Fatally Shot By NYPD After Pointing Gun At Police
New York police and bystanders begged the suspect to drop his weapon, but he refused.
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Brooklyn, NY – Cell phone footage captured the moment when an armed suspect accused of shooting a man pointed a gun at responding officers outside a Brooklyn housing project on Tuesday night (video below).
The incident began at approximately 9:26 p.m., when ShotSpotter sensors detected gunfire at the Kingsborough Houses in Crown Heights, The New York Timesreported.
Officers responded to the area and learned that a man in his 40s had been shot in the area of Bergen Street and Rochester Avenue.
The wounded victim had crawled away from the place where he’d been shot and police were not initially able to find him.
Meanwhile, officers searched for the gunman, who had fled the scene and was hiding behind a tree further up Bergen Street, New York Police Department (NYPD) Chief Terence Monahan told reporters at a press conference just two hours later.
The 34-year-old alleged gunman pointed his weapon at police, at which point they immediately began yelling at him to drop his weapon, The New York Times reported.
Bystanders also screamed at the suspect to comply and to drop the gun, cell phone footage showed......
