Imagine visiting one of the busiest sections of the busiest cities in the world and witnessing knife wielding man get shot.
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It sounds like a scene from a movie, but it was reality for thousands as they witnessed NYPD shoot a man dead on 7th avenue in broad daylight.
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According to multiple reports, police officers approached the man while he was smoking marijuana in plain sight. Once police officers approached him, he tied a bandana around his head and revealed what was described as an 11-inch butcher knife.
As reported by the NY Daily News:
The 51-year-old suspect, identified as Darrius Kennedy, was walking backward for seven blocks with cops in pursuit, appeared impervious to police pepper spray and refused to surrender his blade, witnesses said.
Kennedy died at Bellevue Hospital about 40 minutes after the shooting, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said, adding that six blasts of pepper spray failed to slow the man.
Frightened pedestrians ran for cover into nearby buildings as the man — his knife held aloft like a torch at one point — inexplicably ambled backward for seven blocks, witnesses said.
It is unfortunate that a life had to be lost in the pursuit, but we are glad no innocent bystanders were injured as a result of the chase. This is a very heavily populated area just a stone throw from where we conduct business everyday.
SOURCE: NY Daily News
