NYPD officers fatally shot an armed man after a brief foot chase in Brooklyn on Sunday morning, cops and sources said.
Six officers were called to East 86th Street at just after 9 a.m. on a report of a 28-year-old suspect who had violated an order of protection and encountered a man with a gun leaving the building, police said.
“When officers arrive on the scene, they encounter a subject who matched the description provided by the reporter, leaving the building. As they approached that individual, he fled,” Giordano said.
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“That gun was out and it was in his hand, this was a very close encounter,” Assistant Chief Francis Francis A. Giordano told reporters at a news conference at the scene…