Borkot Ullah

Deadly force

Around 10:30 p.m., officers heard shots in the vicinity of Halsey Street and Wilson Avenue in Bushwick. The officers left their other and approached a group of people in front of a liquor store. They saw three people with gunshot wounds. The officers were informed that an armed man had fled on foot, going westbound on Wilson Avenue. The officers pursued the armed man. They activated their body-worn cameras. The patrolmen went halfway down the block on Wilson Avenue when they found a man crouched on the sidewalk and holding a firearm in his left hand. The officers told him to drop the weapon. Holmes said that the man did not comply and instead raised the gun in the direction of the officers, who shot and killed him.