#Cops shoot dead armed man after Bronx bodega fight
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“Cops shoot dead armed man after Bronx bodega fight”
Dramatic surveillance videos from a fatal officer-involved shooting in the Bronx Thursday show plainclothes NYPD cops firing a barrage of bullets at an armed suspect fleeing from a stabbing in a bodega.
The incident began unfolding inside a convenience store at Hull Avenue and East Gun Hill Road around 11:30 a.m., when police said a 29-year-old man entered the business and immediately attacked a 21-year-old man.
Videos from inside the bodega obtained by The Post show the attacker lunging at the younger man and proceeding to brutally pummel him.
As the brawl moves to the back of the store, the attacker, wearing a dark blue sweatshirt, pins down the victim, who struggles, knocks down a display case of snacks with his feet and kicks wildly at items lining a shelf.
The fight culminates with the aggressor apparently stabbing the victim multiple times before fleeing.
The wounded 21-year-old man then scrambles to his feet and runs after his assailant.
Video recorded by a camera overlooking the entrance to the bodega at the street corner shows the 29-year-old suspect getting into a white Lexus parked outside.
The stabbing victim runs up to the car brandishing a gun and fires at it from what Chief of Detectives James Essig would later describe as “point-blank range.”
But at that moment, the video captures three plainclothes police officers crossing the street with their guns drawn, and more than a dozen gunshots ring out.
The 21-year-old gunman is struck by gunfire and collapses on the ground.
As the stabbing suspect in the blue sweatshirt jumps out of the Lexus and flees, the responding cops cease firing and repeatedly order the wounded gunman: “Don’t move!”
The stabbed and shot man screams in agony, drawing a large crowd of onlookers. The officers approach him and kick away a black handgun from within his reach, then flip him over and cuff him as he begs them not to do it.
Chaos breaks out on the sidewalk, with witnesses shouting, pounding on parked cars in rage and attempting to approach the detained gunman, despite officers’ efforts to keep them away from the crime scene.
The 21-year-old man was taken to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The 29-year-old who allegedly stabbed the 21-year-old inside the bodega was later discovered in a nearby barbershop and taken into custody. He was treated at a hospital for a graze wound to the head.
Essig said the plainclothes officers involved in the shooting — two detectives and a sergeant — are members of the Queens Violent Felony Squad who happened to be in the area to investigate an unrelated case.
It’s not clear from the videos whether all the officers fired their service weapons, or how many bullets were fired.
As of Friday morning, the man who was shot dead by police has not been named, and no charges have been announced against the 29-year-old stabbing suspect.
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