Richard Moncrieffe, 59, was shot when he refused to drop the knife – as ordered by officers outside the First Presbyterian Church on 164th Street in Jamaica around 3:45 p.m. Thursday, authorities s…
minutes after he allegedly stabbed a Queens church security guard has been charged, police said Friday morning.
By Friday morning, he remained hospitalized but was charged with assault, menacing a police officer, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said. The guard was stabbed outside the church’s administrative building after a woman noticed a man acting “erratically” with a knife in his hand, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said during a Thursday evening press conference. The suspect was spotted on an adjacent staircase of the church once police arrived, Chell said.
Chell said the guard’s actions prevented Moncrieffe from potentially getting into the church’s administrative building, which was occupied at the time.
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