Man killed by NYPD after pointing gun at officers and threatening hospital

Police said the incident began around 7 p.m. in an apartment building lift on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where the man spoke briefly to another resident before pulling out a gun and pointing it at him.

He then walked into a nearby deli, pointed the gun at a worker and told him to call 911, saying he was going to a hospital “to shoot it up”, according to AP.

Shortly afterwards, the man entered Mount Sinai Medical Center. Police said he briefly left the building and placed a firearm on the ground but later went back inside, where he told an officer working a paid security shift that he had a gun. When the officer tried to escort him out, a struggle followed and the man recovered his weapon. The officer called for support.

The man then walked down the street and encountered officers arriving in police vehicles. Rivera said the man “immediately fired his gun at the officers” as they got out. The officers returned fire and hit him.

“Every day, our officers put on their uniforms and they encounter dangerous situations across this city,” Rivera said. “But it’s another kind of danger when someone goes into a deli and hospital with a gun and opens fire directly at the NYPD.”

Rivera did not give further details about the man’s identity.