"Life appeared largely back to normal Friday morning in Park Slope, a day after a 62-year-old patient experiencing a mental health crisis barricaded himself with others and threatened to kill people with a sharp object before being shot and killed by NYPD officers at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital on Jan. 8. 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."
"After multiple attempts to subdue him with Tasers failed and officers said he advanced toward them with the weapon, police opened fire, killing him. No hostages or patients were physically injured, and the shooting remains under investigation by the NYPD Force Investigation Division. 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."
A 62-year-old patient admitted the day before barricaded himself with an elderly patient and a staff member on the eighth floor of NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, threatening to kill people with a sharp object. He fashioned a makeshift weapon from a broken piece of a toilet seat and cut himself. Multiple attempts to subdue him with Tasers failed, and officers say he advanced toward them, after which police opened fire and killed him. No hostages or patients were physically injured. The NYPD Force Investigation Division is investigating. Nearby vendors reported visitors routinely asking to hold or stash weapons or drugs.
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