NYPD cops fatally shoot knife-wielding man who charged at them after stabbing wife at family party
NY Post
Police fatally shot a knife-wielding man who charged at them after stabbing his wife at a family party packed with children in their Queens apartment, authorities and neighbors said.
The gathering on the second floor of a building on 62nd Avenue in Forest Hills turned tragic when a 46-year-old man knifed his partner at least twice in the stomach in front of other partygoers around 6:50 p.m., police and the neighbors said.
Police said there had been some sort of dispute — and hours before the stabbing the wife called her brother, telling him she and her husband were “having problems,” he told The Post.
After the attack, somebody in the building called 911. Four cops then arrived, and they ran into the suspect, who was carrying a 12-inch knife in the second-floor hallway, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said at a Friday night press conference.
The cops ordered the man to “drop the knife,” but he refused and “charged” at them with the weapon, Maddrey said.
One of the cops, a sergeant, then discharged his Taser, while two officers fired their guns at least four times, striking the suspect.
