Overview
- Officers responding to multiple 911 calls found a trail of blood at 126 Ludlow Street and encountered 54-year-old Wei Chan descending a stairwell with a large butcher knife before they fired at him.
- Police say officers deployed a Taser that had no effect and then fired multiple rounds, and Chan was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
- A 75-year-old man identified as the suspect’s father was found with a head laceration and taken to the hospital with injuries officials say were inflicted by his son and are not life threatening.
- Officials have said Chan had no known criminal record but a documented mental-health history with the department and that the incident was captured on officers’ body-worn cameras.
- The shooting is under an internal NYPD Force Investigation Division review and, under New York law for fatal officer-involved shootings, will be reviewed by the state attorney general; police cautioned that details are preliminary.