NYPD cops fatally shoot gunman after shooting in the Bronx

Two NYPD detectives fatally shot a man in the Bronx Thursday, moments after he opened fire on another man, police said.

The 21-year-old gunman alleged took a shot at a man who attacked him with a knife in a store on E. Gun Hill Road near Hull Ave. in Norwood at around 11:30 a.m.

NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said Queens Warrant Squad cops were in the area for an unrelated investigation when a 29-year-old man armed with a knife got out of a double-parked white Lexus and stepped into a bodega, where he got involved in a “violent struggle” with the 21-year-old gunman.

In video viewed by the Daily News, the younger man stood in the bodega when the 29-year-old walked in and rushed him.

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He punched the man and wrestled him to the floor, where the two tussled, knocking a wire rack over and food off the shelves, video shows.

Women outside quickly rushed children away from the sidewalk outside the bodega as the men fought outside, exterior surveillance footage shows.

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“The man with the knife flees, pursued by the man with the gun,” Essig explained. “As he exits the bodega he fires at the male at point blank range into the white Lexus.”

The older man got back into the Lexus, but when police first fired off shots, he ran to a barbershop on W. Gun Hill Road — about eight blocks away — to hide and abandoned the car.

Fabio, 53, is the owner of Q Lo Q, a juice bar next door to the barber shop. Once he heard the bloodied man ran into the neighboring business, he went inside to check on the woman who runs the place, because he knew she was alone.

“He was hiding behind the counter where you pay,” Fabio recalled. “Then, when I look I said, ‘man you need to get out. He was like, ‘no please I don’t have no gun... I don’t have no knife, no gun. I’m good, I’m good. I just wanna hide here. Don’t call the police, don’t call the cops please. I have a baby, please.’”

Fabio said it took 20 minutes to get the man to leave the barbershop, which he did by ambulance. He was taken to St. Barnabas, where he was in stable condition with a graze wound to his head.

At the same time, Essig said, a plainclothes sergeant and two detectives confronted the gunman on E. Gun Hill Road and Hull Ave.

One detective fired twice, the other 10 times as the man stumbled behind an ice box outside the bodega, video shows.

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“Hands up! Hands! Don’t move!” the officers scream.

The officers, wearing bulletproof vests with “Police” printed across the backs, walk toward the man, guns in hand.

The shot man laid on the sidewalk injured while one of the officers kicked what appeared to be a gun out of his reach, the footage shows.

One of the officers handcuff him as a crowd of bystanders begins to form.

The man with the gun was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died.

Yolanda Medina lives near the scene and ran outside when she heard the gunshots, concerned for her daughter who was the Fine Fare store next door to where the bullets flew.

“I seen the guy running then I seen the cops telling him to stop. He didn’t stop he kept running,” Medina, 45, said. “He got shot. He fell on the floor, and they cuffed him. He was running... down Hull Ave. He was laying by the icebox. That’s where all the blood was at.”

Medina said bursts of violence like this are not uncommon in the neighborhood.

“It’s ongoing violence in this area. I’ve lived here 19 years. It’s getting worse. There’s always cops here posting up but still a lot of things going on in this area.”