Overview
- Officers in Southampton shot 28-year-old Steven Eastwood during a domestic call Sunday after they found him stabbing his mother in their Northampton home.
- Police said they ordered him to drop a knife, he resumed attacking his mother, and the shooting was recorded on body cameras.
- The victim, a wheelchair user, suffered more than 40 stab and slash wounds and was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious injuries.
- Detectives from the New York State Attorney General’s Office are investigating the shooting, which is the standard process for police-involved deaths in New York.
- Police reported years of domestic calls to the address and said a prior order of protection was not active, and three responding officers were evaluated and released from a hospital.