Three police sources said the shooting happened at a subway station in Brooklyn.
NYPD brass said the alleged fare-beater had charged at the officers with a knife and made verbal threats against their livesPolice opened fire on a subway platform in Brooklyn during a confrontation with an alleged fare-beater, striking the man cops said was armed with a knife, two straphangers caught in the fray, and one of the firing officers, NYPD officials said Sunday.
Body-worn camera footage, which Maddrey said he reviewed before the press conference, allegedly showed the man make a verbal threat to the officers. He told the cops,"I'm going to kill you if you don't stop following me," the chief said. The police department confirmed multiple bystanders were shot, along with a suspect and responding officer.
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