PhotoPolice officers fatally shot a man who was threatening his mother with a screwdriver at a house in Queens on Saturday, the police said. In a stairwell leading to a basement apartment, two officers found a 28-year-old man holding his mother and threatening her with a screwdriver, Terence A. Monahan, the New York Police Department’s chief of patrol, said in a statement. The man, whom the police identified as Jahlire Nicholson, refused the officers’ orders to drop the screwdriver, the police said. During a struggle, the officers freed the mother, and at least one of the officers fired a stun gun at the man but missed, Chief Monahan said. Two officers then fired their weapons once, with both shots striking the man.

Source: New York Times January 14, 2017 18:05 UTC