Tense standoff at NY hospital ends in fatal shooting

A wild story coming out of a Brooklyn hospital last week, involving a former NYPD officer, a piece of a toilet seat and a fatal shooting.

It was Thursday, January 8, just before 5:30 p.m. when police were called to the New-York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Park Slope for reports of a man armed with a knife on the hospital’s eighth floor.

The suspect, now identified as Michael Lynch, 62, of Forte Greene, Brooklyn, reportedly locked himself inside of a hospital room with an elderly patient and a hospital security employee, Assistant Chief Charlie Minch said in a Thursday evening press conference.

Hospital staff reportedly told police Lynch had cut himself and then made threats to harm others and kill staff members, police said in the press conference…

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