Man caught on video wielding 13-inch kitchen knife at NYC grocery store moments before police shoot him

A crazed antheral was changeable by constabulary aft wielding a 13-inch room weapon extracurricular a market store, the New York Police Department said.

"Once again, we are reminded of the dangers that our officers face each clip they enactment connected their uniform. And this greeting was nary different," Inspector Andrew Natiw, the enforcement serviceman of the Patrol Bureau of Manhattan North, said successful a Monday greeting quality conference.

According to the NYPD, connected Monday astatine 1:15 a.m., a 53-year-old got into a verbal combat with different idiosyncratic wrong the City Fresh Market connected East 120th Street and Third Avenue.

Multiple employees had to physically region him from the store aft helium became "irate and disorderly," the NYPD said. The antheral returned to the store a abbreviated clip aboriginal with a ample room weapon successful his hand, banging connected the window, according to police.

At astir 1:44 a.m., officers from the 25th Precinct responded to 120th St and 3rd Ave. for a police-involved shooting with a fishy who seemed to beryllium equipped with a ample room weapon who was seen connected a adjacent supermarket's surveillance camera menacing workers anterior to his confrontation with police. (Video by Dakota Santiago (FreedomNewsTV))

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Surveillance video captured the antheral wielding a 13-inch knife, yelling, pressing against the store's glass, constabulary said.

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Employees locked the doorway and called 911 conscionable aft 1:30 a.m. 

When officers arrived, they told the antheral to driblet the weapon aggregate times, but helium "quickly precocious toward the officers with the weapon extended out."

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Police changeable a 53-year-old antheral equipped with a 13-inch weapon successful East Harlem aboriginal Monday. (NYPD NEWS)

Authorities said that 1 of the officers changeable the fishy and instantly requested EMS and rendered assistance to the 53-year-old suspect.

The suspect, they said, was removed to Harlem Hospital wherever helium went into surgery, and is successful critical, but unchangeable condition.

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Police recovered a 13-inch room weapon extracurricular an East Harlem market store aft they accidental a antheral charged officers with it. (WNYW)

The NYPD declined to supply a sanction of the suspect. Police said the antheral has a past of anterior arrests and was known to instrumentality enforcement.

Investigators recovered astir 7 ammunition casings astatine the scene. The incidental remains nether investigation.