An NYPD cop shot a man to death who, during a fight with his father, charged at police with a boxcutter in Queens early Sunday, NYPD officials said.
Police responding to a 911 call about a father-son dispute showed up at an apartment building at Nameoke St. near Central Ave. in Far Rockaway about 12:25 a.m., NYPD Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera told reporters Sunday morning.
Two uniformed cops from the 101st Precinct showed up to find the 29-year-old son’s parents outside, Rivera sad. The officers went into the apartment with the parents to find their son but he wasn’t inside, Rivera said.
When they left the apartment, they found the son in a hallway wielding a boxcutter, Rivera said. The father started scuffling with his son, Rivera said, and the officers repeatedly told the son to drop his weapon but he refused, Rivera said.
The father then “disengaged from the physical altercation with his son and retreated behind the uniformed police officers,” Rivera said.
The son charged at the cops, leading one of the officers to discharge a Taser and the other to open fire at close range, hitting the son, according to police.
The officers performed CPR on the shot son before medics took him to an area hospital but he couldn’t be saved, Rivera said.
Cops have not yet released the dead man’s name.
