Police fatally shot a 66-year-old black woman wielding a baseball bat
NBC New York
The officer who fired the fatal shots was also armed with a Taser, but did not deploy it, a police official said.
The shooting occurred at the woman's apartment in the Bronx Tuesday evening when police responded to a call about a woman acting irrationally.
Police found the woman unclothed and armed with a pair of scissors, New York Police Department assistant chief Larry Nikunen told reporters on Tuesday. A police sergeant convinced her to put the scissors down, but the woman then tried to attack him with a baseball bat, Nikunen said.
The officer fired two shots into the woman's torso, he said. She was pronounced dead at Jacobi Medical Center.
The woman, identified as Deborah Danner, had a history of erratic behavior, residents of her apartment building told CBS New York. Police had responded to "several incidents" with the woman in the past, Nikunen said.
The officer, Hugh Barry, is an eight-year veteran of the department. He has been placed on "modified assignment," meaning he is stripped of his badge and gun pending an investigation, CNN reported.
The investigation, conducted by the department's force investigation division, will seek to determine why Nikunen opted for his service revolver over his Taser, Nikunen said.
NBC New York
"While I certainly understand the hard work that our police officers undertake to keep the streets of our city safe every single day, I also know what excessive force looks like," Diaz said. "This elderly woman was known to the police department, yet the officer involved in this shooting failed to use discretion to either talk her down from her episode or, barring that, to use his stun gun."
"That is totally unacceptable," he added.
NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill seemed to agree with the assessment.
"We failed," O'Neill said on Wednesday, according to CBS New York. "We do have policies and procedures for handling emotionally-disturbed people. It looks like that some of those procedures were not followed."
- Singapore Airlines was ordered to pay a couple compensation for 'mental agony' after they complained their business-class seats didn't automatically recline
- Welcome to the white-collar recession
- A software engineer shares the résumé he's used since college that got him a $500,000 job at Meta — plus offers at TikTok and LinkedIn
- American Express to open one-million sq feet campus in Gurugram
- Kotak Mahindra Bank shares decline over 4%; hit 52-week low
- NPCI International to support Namibia develop instant payment system like UPI
- Markets trade firm in early trade as GST revenues hit record in April
- Blockchain in Supply Chain Management
- Nothing Phone (2a) blue edition launched
- JNK India IPO allotment date
- JioCinema New Plans
- Realme Narzo 70 Launched
- Apple Let Loose event
- Elon Musk Apology
- RIL cash flows
- Charlie Munger
- Feedbank IPO allotment
- Tata IPO allotment
- Most generous retirement plans
- Broadcom lays off
- Cibil Score vs Cibil Report
- Birla and Bajaj in top Richest
- Nestle Sept 2023 report
- India Equity Market