New details have been released by the Metropolitan Police Department after a 41-year-old Northeast DC man was killed in an officer-involved shooting.
At around 6:45 a.m. on Jan. 24, members of the Metropolitan Police Department responded to the 2100 block of Benning Road NE to assist a man who was in crisis, according to Chief Pamela Smith.
Responding officers – one of whom was a highly-trained crisis intervention specialist – encountered the man, Clifford Brooks, and conversed with him for upwards of two hours, she said, before he relented and was taken into custody by paramedics for treatment and evaluation.
However, the ordeal was only in its infancy.
Smith said that while Brooks was being transported he became combative and attacked the firefighter/paramedic who was riding with him, pinning her against the inside wall of the ambulance. She was able to slip out the side door of the ambulance and flee, and the man followed her outside near the 1300 block of North Capitol Street near New York Avenue, leading to a heavy police response in the area.