Overview
- Officers responded around 5:30 p.m. Thursday to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital for reports of an emotionally disturbed man armed with a knife.
- Police say the man barricaded himself in a room with an elderly patient and a hospital security employee, had cut himself, and left blood on the walls and floor.
- After Tasers failed to subdue him, at least one officer opened fire, and the suspect was later pronounced dead, according to the latest reports from officials and local outlets.
- Authorities reported no injuries to hospital staff, patients, or bystanders; a brief lockdown and a Level 1 mobilization were lifted and operations resumed.
- The NYPD’s Force Investigation Division is leading the probe, and officials have not released the suspect’s identity or further operational details.