#NYPD cops shoot Staten Island man who allegedly lunged at officers with pipe

An NYPD officer shot and injured a man after he lunged at cops with a metal pipe in Staten Island on Friday night, police said.

Officers responded to a call about a disturbance on Malden Place near Falcon Avenue at around 10:35 p.m., NYPD Deputy Chief Charles McEvoy told reporters.

The cops tried to speak to a man who was “acting erratically” inside his apartment, and after several minutes, took him to an ambulance waiting outside, McEvoy said.

But the man took off as EMS were treating him, “pushing his way past the officers” and running back to his second-floor apartment.

The officers followed him inside, “where he was able to pick up a two and a half foot metal pipe which he began to swing at the officers,” McEvoy said.

Law-enforcement sources said the cops ordered the man to drop the pipe, but he refused, and lunged at them.

One cop opened fire, hitting the man in the torso, according to the deputy chief.

The man, who is in his 40s, was taken to Staten Island University Hospital, where he was undergoing surgery. He was listed in stable condition, McEvoy said.

Both officers were taken to a hospital for medical evaluation. 

A neighbor named Sharon, who declined to give her last name, told The Post that the suspected attacker had threatened her earlier on Friday.

She said she was heading home when the man, who was sitting on his stoop, shouted, “Don’t play with me,” as she crossed the street.

“Then he goes, ‘I want it back. I know you took it. If you don’t give it back to me, you’re going to see what’s going to happen,’” Sharon said.

When she asked if he was threatening her, Sharon said the man “got in my face and said ‘Yes, I’m threatening you.’”

Later, she said she saw him walking up and down the block screaming, which is when she called the police to report that her neighbor was acting “weird.”

“When the cops came, I heard banging and then shots fired,” she said, adding she thought she heard three or four shots, but that “it might have been more.”

She said cops have responded to previous calls involving this resident over the last two years, and that incidents like this are rare in her typically quiet Oakwood neighborhood.