Overview
- Police identified the patient as Michael Lynch, 62, who resigned from the NYPD in the 1990s and had been admitted to the hospital the day before.
- Lynch barricaded himself in an eighth-floor room with an elderly patient and a hospital security guard, cut himself repeatedly, and threatened to kill others using a broken piece of a toilet seat.
- Officers issued repeated commands and deployed Tasers multiple times, but when Lynch advanced with the bloodied weapon, they fired, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
- A brief Level 1 mobilization and lockdown followed, officials reported no injuries to staff or bystanders, and the hospital resumed normal operations.
- The shooting was one of two fatal NYPD incidents that night, with a separate West Village case involving an imitation handgun; both are under review by the NYPD’s Force Investigation Division.