Police Fatally Shoot a Man In the Bronx


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<p>Police officers in the Bronx killed a man they said had fired at them with an air pistol on Friday night, the second such fatal encounter in the borough in four days.</p>

<p>The confrontation that led to the shooting occurred at about 7 p.m. near the intersection of Seneca and Hunts Point Avenues in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, officials said.</p>

<p>Plainclothes narcotics detectives working in the area said they had overheard a dispute in which a man said he was going to his car to retrieve a gun, according to an account given by Assistant Chief Philip Rivera in a news conference about 10 p.m.</p>

<p>The man returned in a pickup and stepped out at the corner of the avenues as a detective approached him wearing a vest emblazoned with the word “police,” the officer said. Another detective shouted, “Police — Don’t move,” according to Assistant Chief Rivera’s account of the incident.</p>

<p>The man fired what Assistant Chief Rivera said was a so-called airsoft pistol, just missing a detective’s head from a range of about 15 feet. The weapon “looks like a semiautomatic firearm,” he said.</p>

<p>Police officers fired 10 shots at the man, striking him five times. He died at Lincoln Medical Center, Assistant Chief Rivera said. Officials did not identify the man, but cited a history of felony arrests.</p>
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0 +1 Dilligaf2022 1 year ago

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