Overview
- Police identified the Brooklyn hospital patient as 62-year-old Michael Lynch, a former NYPD officer who barricaded himself with a patient and a security guard while wielding a shard from a broken toilet.
- Officers at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital issued repeated commands and deployed Tasers that proved ineffective before fatally shooting Lynch; the other two people in the room were unharmed.
- In the West Village, officers approached a BMW after a reported road‑rage crash when a 37-year-old exited and pointed what appeared to be a handgun, prompting police to fire; the weapon was later identified as a realistic Sig Sauer air pistol.
- The West Village driver was taken to Bellevue Hospital and pronounced dead, and officials said body-worn camera footage captured the encounter in which officers repeatedly ordered him to drop the weapon.
- Both shootings are under review by the NYPD Force Investigation Division, hospitals resumed normal operations, and the New York State Nurses Association is pressing for panic alarms, screening, and rapid-response behavioral teams during contract negotiations.