Overview
- Police say a 62-year-old patient at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital barricaded himself with an elderly patient and a security guard while wielding a makeshift blade from a broken toilet seat.
- Officers reported multiple ineffective Taser deployments before shooting the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene; no other injuries were reported and hospital operations resumed.
- In the West Village just before 11 p.m., officers approached a BMW after a crash report when a 37-year-old man exited and pointed what appeared to be a handgun.
- Investigators determined the weapon recovered in Manhattan was an imitation or air pistol resembling a Sig Sauer; the man was taken to Bellevue Hospital and pronounced dead.
- NYPD officials provided briefings correcting early reports from Thursday night, confirming both deaths and noting that the investigations are ongoing.