Overview
- Police say an NYPD officer shot a 53-year-old who advanced on them with a knife outside City Fresh Market in East Harlem.
- The encounter began with a verbal fight inside the store that ended when employees physically removed the man, according to Inspector Andrew Lateef.
- Minutes later he returned carrying a 13-inch kitchen knife, banged on the locked door, and workers called 911.
- Officers issued repeated commands to drop the weapon and tried to create distance before one officer fired and hit his lower right abdomen; an officer had minor injuries.
- He was taken to Harlem Hospital in critical condition and undergoing surgery, and police recovered the knife and opened an investigation.