NEW YORK (AP) - A man suspected of stabbing a woman in a domestic incident in Brooklyn was fatally shot by two officers after he lunged at them with scissors, police said.
The officers had gone to an apartment on Clarkson Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday and found a 37-year-old female stabbed in the chest and being treated by EMS, according to police.
While the officers were inside the apartment, police said a 31-year-old male who was in a back room lunged at them with a pair of scissors. Both officers fired, striking the suspect in the torso.
The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was hospitalized in stable condition.
The incident was the third police-involved shooting in recent days.
Earlier Sunday, officers shot and wounded a man who they said pointed a gun at them in East Harlem. The unidentified man was listed in critical but stable condition at New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Authorities said the uniformed officers responded to a 911 call of a large disorderly group and a man with a firearm in the Washington Houses. The officers were questioning a man when he fled, and they saw he had a gun, police said.
They gave chase, and the man turned and pointed a .22-caliber revolver at the officers who then fired at him, authorities said.
On Friday, four officers shot and killed a man suspected of taking drugs and cash from a Manhattan pharmacy after the man raised his weapon at them, police said.
The suspect, identified by police as 45-year-old Scott Kato, was shot while alone in a car that got stuck in traffic beneath an underpass of the FDR Drive at 96th Street after the robbery some 30 blocks away.
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