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Suspect in Brooklyn Double Homicide Over Noise Complaint, Jason Pass, Shot Dead by NYPD

Former corrections officer Jason Pass, 47, killed by NYPD officers after an attempted arrest following his alleged shooting of stepfather and son in East Flatbush, Brooklyn over a noise dispute.

  • Jason Pass, 47, a former corrections officer, is accused of killing his neighbours, 27-year-old Chinwai Mode and 47-year-old Bladimy Mathurin, in a Brooklyn apartment building over a noise feud.
  • Surveillance footage showed Jason Pass allegedly confronting Mode and Mathurin before opening fire and shooting them execution-style.
  • The NYPD located Jason Pass in his car when a patrol unit got a hit on his license plate. When officers approached the vehicle, Pass came out with a knife and refused to comply with officers' orders to drop the weapon.
  • Officers opened fire when Pass allegedly lunged at them, hitting him three times in the chest and once in the leg. He was transported to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
  • The incident marks an end to a years-long dispute over noise, with six previous 311 noise complaints filed from Pass’s apartment. The victims, Both Mathurin, and his stepson, Mode, were shot in their Flatbush Gardens apartment complex, a famed complex where stars like Barbra Streisand grew up.
  • The investigation into the incident continues with police stating that Pass had a prior criminal history that included a 1992 arrest for robbery. Pass was fired his job as a correction officer at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining from September 2004 to June 2005
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