NYPD: 1 dead after Bronx bodega fight ends in police-involved shooting
NEW YORK - A fight in a bodega spilled into the street and resulted in a gunman being shot by police, NYPD officials said.
It happened around 11:30 a.m. Thursday on Gun Hill Road near Hill Avenue in the Bronx.
NYPD officials say members of the Queens Warrant Squad were parked outside on the street on an unrelated matter when a man, 29, drove up in a white Lexus. The man got out of the car and went into a nearby bodega.
Police say once inside the bodega, he got into a fight with a 21-year-old man inside.
The struggle was caught on surveillance video.
Police say they don't know yet know what the fight was about, but the 21-year-old had a gun, and the 29-year-old had a knife and can be seen on surveillance video stabbing the man with the gun.
The man with the knife then turned and ran, chased by the 21-year-old with the gun. As the 29-year-old got back in his car, the 21-year-old opened fire at point blank range, police said. That's when the gunman was confronted by three plainclothes officers, and they fired "numerous times."
The 21-year-old was hit. He died at Jacobi Hospital.
The 29-year-old took off, but was found nearby later with a graze wound to the head. He's been hospitalized.
Police recovered the knife and gun.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip via their website or via DM on Twitter, @NYPDTips. All calls are kept confidential.
