The NYPD released in early December video footage of the police-involved shooting that occurred earlier this year on April 13 on the elevated train tracks at Broadway and 231st Street in Kingsbridge.

 

As reported at the time by Norwood News, the male victim was hospitalized following the police-involved shooting at 231st Street subway station following an apparent stand-off on the elevated train track between police and the man who officers understood at the time was armed with a gun. Witnesses also reported seeing  a man on the elevated train track at 238th Street subway station armed with a gun, who had been acting erratically.

 

During a subsequent press conference held after the incident, police held up a photo of what was described as an imitation pistol recovered at the scene.

NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper had outlined what happened during a press conference held on the evening of the incident, saying in part, “This evening at about 7.55 p.m., officers from the 50th Precinct responded to 911 calls of a man with a gun at the train platform at Broadway and West 238th Street on the 1 line. The callers described a man acting crazy, waving a gun at a crowd, which included children.”

 

He continued, “The officers responded immediately to the train station, walked up the stairs to the elevated platform and were met by multiple witnesses who immediately pointed at the man who was on the platform area and said, ‘That’s the guy with the gun’.”

 

Kemper went on to say, “The officers approached this male. They observed a firearm, a gun in his hand and they ordered him to drop the gun and stop. The male refused to comply with their directions and began walking southbound on the train catwalk, parallel to the train track, and he was walking southbound on the catwalk toward the next stop which is 231st street.”

 

Kemper continued, “Based on that, the officers put the description over the police radio to other units in the field, advising them of the description of this individual, and telling the other officers what direction the male was walking toward. Again, these officers continued to follow this male on the catwalk of the train track, and again, multiple times, warning him to drop the gun and stop.”

 

He went on to say, “This male refused to comply. As the male was approaching 231st Street, responding officers went up to the train platform and they too walked up to the catwalk and started walking towards this armed individual, basically sandwiching him in, the officers sandwiched him in.”

 

Kemper continued, “Again, multiple demands from the officers, who were in uniform, were given to the male to drop the firearm and he refused. It also should be noted that multiple times this individual pointed that fire arm at these officers up on that catwalk area. It was at the point when he pointed the gun again at the officers when one of the officers fired one round, striking this individual one time to his left hand, causing the gun to drop and ended the threat.”

 

50 Precinct Officer-Involved Shooting April 13, 2023. Video courtesy of the NYPD

The transit chief went on to say that the officers immediately went over to the gunshot victim, secured the gun, and rendered aid to him. “The male was removed to St. Barnabas Hospital where he is in stable condition and the officers are not injured at this time,” Kemper said.

 

At the time, the manager of the KFC at Broadway and West 232nd Street in Kingsbridge, Chris Ferguson, had shared a video he took of the shooting, as reported. He also shared his thoughts on capturing the incident in real time and his thoughts on gun violence. Click here and here to watch both the incident and the aftermath of the shooting, captured by Ferguson’s steady hand. [Videos courtesy of Chris Ferguson]

Describing the incident as it unfolded, Ferguson told Norwood News at the time, “In real time watching it, I was nervous. I was nervous for the people in the restaurant. I was nervous for my team.” Asked where everyone was at the time the incident was unfolding, he said, “They were inside. I told them to stay inside, and I came out so to see what was going on, you know, make sure that everything was fine.”

 

Asked how he knew to go outside, Ferguson said, “I seen like a lot of commotion, like cops right? Then, I came out to see what was going on and then I looked up. That’s when I started to look up to see what was going on.”

Read our previous stories on the shooting here and here.

 

The video released by police can be watched on YouTube and is linked above.

 

On Saturday, Dec. 23, a 30-year-old man was fatally shot by police amid a domestic violence stabbing incident in which two family members were injured, as reported.

 

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