Suspect Armed with Knife Shot Dead While Climbing Cables of Brooklyn Bridge in NYC
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
NEW YORK — NYPD officers shot and killed a man armed with a knife on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York after he climbed the cables and threatened emergency responders with the weapon, authorities reported during a press conference on Friday morning. According to Jerry Dowling, deputy chief of the Emergency Service Unit (ESU), officers received a 911 call around 3:30 a.m. about a person walking on the beams on the bridge towards Brooklyn. ESU officers arrived at the scene and attempted to engage the man in dialogue. The deputy chief stated that the two officers tried for nearly an hour to convince the man to come down when they noticed he had a knife. "I want to die," the suspect said, according to authorities. Dowling emphasized that during high-altitude rescues on bridges, officers remain secured to the structure for safety reasons, which significantly limits their mobility. "I want to die. I want you to kill me. I have a bomb. You won't force me to do something bad to the police," the man reportedly told the two ESU officers on the cable. The officers continued to try to persuade him to come down from the cables while repeatedly ordering him to drop the knife. After an hour, police said the man began to descend rapidly down the bridge cable towards the officers. Both officers were positioned below the man, still secured to the bridge and on the same cable. They began to back away, according to authorities, but could not move away as quickly as the man approached. The suspect was shot when he was about 3 feet from the first ESU officer, raising the hand holding the knife towards the officer. At that moment, an ESU officer fired once, hitting the man. The officers brought the man down from the cable and began to assist him. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. A knife was recovered at the scene. Authorities said the entire incident was recorded by police body cameras. NotifyNYC sent an alert around 4:30 a.m. warning of delays on the bridge due to police activity. The bridge was temporarily closed in both directions. On social media, several people reported waking up due to the police response. Chopper 4 footage showed a large emergency operation, with multiple police vehicles and yellow evidence markers scattered across the bridge. Both lanes of the bridge reopened during the mid-morning rush hour. This shooting marks the second deadly incident this week in which NYPD officers opened fire. On Monday, an emotionally disturbed woman armed with two knives randomly attacked several people in Times Square, killing a 32-year-old woman and injuring a 68-year-old man before advancing towards the police, according to authorities. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
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