Police shot a 62-year-old man armed with a knife inside Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn on Thursday, leaving him in critical condition, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.
The suspect barricaded himself in a sixth-floor room with an elderly patient inside the Park Slope medical center at Sixth St. and Seventh Ave. when he started cutting himself shortly before 6 p.m., sources said.
Sources described the man as emotionally disturbed and wielding a knife.
Two responding police officers from the 78th Precinct initially tasered him. But either because they missed or he withstood the electric shocks, the man remained standing.
Another pair of cops then opened fire at him with their handguns, sources said.
The man was in the hospital visiting family, according to sources.
A Crown Heights caterer was undergoing dialysis on the hospital’s seventh-floor when an alert for an active shooter went out over the PA system.
“I started running downstairs and I heard a bang,” 36-year-old John Brown told The News. “As I was running downstairs, (hospital workers shouted, ‘No, go that way.’ When I got on the first floor, they said, ‘Stay put.’ The hospital was on lockdown.
“I wasn’t focusing on the chaos. I was concerned for my own safety. My objective was to be safe and get home.”
