"The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Thursday said officers responded to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital shortly before 5:30 p.m. after they received multiple reports about a violent man who was armed with a sharp weapon inside the hospital. The man, later identified as Lynch, was a patient at the hospital. He was admitted on Wednesday, police said. NYPD Assistant Chief Charlie Minch said callers told dispatchers that the man"
""When they got to the room, they saw blood all over the walls, floor, and splattered across the exterior of the door," Minch said at a news conference. "The subject came into the doorframe and displayed the bloody weapon." Minch said officers stood outside the door for at least three minutes while they issued "dozens of verbal commands," urging the man to drop the weapon, but he continuously refused. He also tried to forcefully shut the door several times as officers attempted to get inside."
Michael Lynch, 62 and a former New York police officer from Brooklyn, was shot and killed at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital after a violent incident. Officers responded shortly before 5:30 p.m. following reports of a man armed with a sharp weapon in the hospital. Lynch was a patient who had been admitted the day before. He barricaded himself in a room with others, cut himself, threatened to kill staff and an elderly patient, and displayed a bloody weapon made from a broken toilet seat. Officers issued repeated verbal commands and deployed a stun gun before shooting him when he advanced toward them.
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