By The Daily Wire (World News) | Created at 2026-08-17 01:36:17 | Updated at 2026-08-17 06:28:38
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NYPD officers shot and killed a man who police say charged at them with a butcher knife inside a Lower East Side apartment building Sunday afternoon, according to police.
Officers responded to the building around 4 p.m. following multiple 911 calls reporting a domestic dispute, assault, and a person armed with a weapon. When officers arrived, they found blood on the stairs inside the building, according to authorities.
As officers followed the blood trail up the stairwell, they encountered a man carrying a large butcher knife. Police repeatedly ordered the man to show his hands and drop the weapon, but he continued moving toward the officers, according to the NYPD.
Officers first deployed a Taser, which had no effect. They then fired at least four times, striking the man in the chest, police said. The man was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to ABC7. He was later identified as 54-year-old Wei Chan. Police recovered the knife at the scene.
A second man, 75-year-old Cheung Chan, was found inside the building with a laceration to the head. Police identified him as Chan’s father and said the injury was inflicted by his son. He is expected to survive. It was not immediately clear whether the wound came from the knife or another object, per the New York Post.
Four responding officers suffered minor injuries and were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian, according to police and fire officials.
A patron at a nearby bar told amNewYork that he saw crews performing CPR on a man as they carried him out of the building on a stretcher and into an ambulance.
The circumstances leading up to the confrontation remain under investigation.
