"Police said the man, who was admitted to the hospital the day before, began cutting himself with a makeshift weapon fashioned from a broken piece of a toilet seat. Authorities said he barricaded himself inside a room on the hospital's eighth floor with an elderly patient and a staff member, prompting a police response and a brief hospital lockdown. After multiple attempts to subdue him with Tasers failed and officers said he advanced toward them with the weapon, police opened fire, killing him."
"Across the street from the hospital, street vendor Yusuf has been operating a food truck at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Sixth Street for 28 years. He told Brooklyn Paper that hospital visitors frequently ask him to hold weapons or drugs while they go inside sometimes offering money. Some people come, they have knives and stuff, and they come to me, Can you hold it for me?' All the time, every day. I'm like, No, I can't hold it, Yusuf told Brooklyn Paper."
On Jan. 8 a 62-year-old patient admitted the day before experienced a mental health crisis at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and barricaded himself on the eighth floor with an elderly patient and a staff member. The man fashioned a makeshift weapon from a broken toilet seat and began cutting himself, then threatened to kill people. Officers attempted to subdue him with Tasers multiple times; after police said he advanced toward them with the weapon, officers opened fire and killed him. No hostages or patients were physically injured. The NYPD Force Investigation Division is investigating the shooting. Nearby vendors report visitors frequently hide or ask others to hold weapons, drugs, or cigarettes before entering the hospital.
Read at www.amny.com
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