The armed patient who was fatally shot by police inside NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Thursday was a former NYPD officer, police said.
Michael Lynch, 62, resigned from the NYPD in the 1990s, the NYPD said.
New details of the shooting
The incident took place at around 5:30 p.m. in an eighth-floor room of the hospital. Officers initially confronted Lynch, who was armed with a jagged piece of a broken toilet seat. He had cut himself, police said, and barricaded himself in the room with an unarmed hospital security officer, as well as another patient. The security officer had arrived at the room before police, responding to a report of a disturbance in the room.
“When they got to the room, they saw blood all over the walls, floor, and splattered across the exterior of the door,” said Charles Minch, commanding officer of Patrol Borough Brooklyn South…