A man was killed following a police stop by officers from the 52nd Precinct in a daytime shooting that stunned residents in the relatively quiet neighborhood, who haven’t seen an incident like this unfold in years.

NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan briefed reporters on the shooting that happened at Bainbridge Avenue and East 211th Street, a relatively quiet section of the neighborhood that passes a busy nexus of traffic in Norwood.

Officers spotted the man driving without a seat belt on Bainbridge Avenue near East Gun Hill Road, pulling him over by Bainbridge Avenue and East 211th Street.

Two officers–partners for the 52nd Precinct’s Neighborhood Coordination Officer (NCO) program, which places officers in sectors as a means of improving police relations–approached the car on the driver’s side while a sergeant, the supervisor of the precinct’s NCO program, approached the passenger side. After using their NYPD-issued smartphones to look up the driver’s history, the officers learned the driver had three open warrants, giving officers reason to arrest him. But the suspect resisted, according to Monahan, adding a struggle ensued.

“During the struggle, the man shifted the car into drive, moving the car forward and backwards, with the sergeant still inside the vehicle. When the car was put in reverse, the officer on the driver’s side had to release his grip on the male and jump out of the way to avoid getting struck by the car. The driver’s door then quickly closed. This violent struggle between the male and the officers lasted approximately one and a half minutes before the shot was fired. At this time the sergeant fired one round from his service weapon striking the male in the chest. The officers then began to render aid,” said Monahan, flanked by 52nd Precinct commanding officer Thomas Alps, Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison, at a news conference three hours after the shooting.

The suspect was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital where he died.

Current state laws give officers discretion to use their service weapon to fire at a suspect when they use a vehicle as a weapon posing as “an imminent threat of deadly physical force.”

The suspect was not armed. No weapon was recovered. Monahan said police recovered what they considered to be a “substantial amount” of what appeared to be cocaine, heroin and Ecstasy.

Video taken from Bryant Lopez, a Norwood resident, shows a chaotic scene where the bloodied suspect lying on the ground with his pants down as a sergeant presses down on his chest to resuscitate him.

The chaotic scene was the talk of Norwood, where crowds had formed along the yellow tape. Several blocks from Bainbridge Avenue, Lopez hung out with his friend Jelani F. as they discussed the shooting, believing that the shooting had been a knee-jerk reaction.

“That was senseless,” said Jelani. “Being put in that position where guns are drawn and people pressing you, ‘get out the car, get out the car, get out the car.’ You understand?”

Major crime within the Five-Two has risen this year compared to the same time last year at 10 percent, with murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, and grand larcenies up.

This is the third police-involved shooting in the Bronx in less than a month. On Sept. 29, Det. Brian Mulkeen was killed in a case of friendly fire as they attempted to arrest a suspect at Edenwald Houses. The latest happened on Wednsday, when police shot a suspect at the 225th Street Station in Wakefield.

Additional reporting by Michael Turay.