NYPD is rebuilding the movements of a 20-year-old man who died on Thursday night after a armed confrontation with agents on the Upper East Side. The episode involved a residential building, a mini-market and the entrance to the Mount Sinai Hospital, generating a series of quick-sequenced interventions between Madison Avenue and nearby streets. According to NYPD, the young man had been seen shortly before in an elevator to a palace in Madison Avenue, where he would show a gun to another resident, without firing.
Shortly thereafter, the man entered a food shop in the area, where – according to police reconstruction – he would threaten an employee and asked to contact 911, adding references to a possible attack on a hospital. From the store he would then move away with the employee’s phone, heading to Mount Sinai. There, according to the information reported by the investigators, he would have left the weapon on the ground near a tree, then return to the building and meet an off-service agent engaged in the security service. In an attempt to remove him, a physical confrontation would be born, finished with the escape of the 20-year-old who would recover the gun and continued south on Madison Avenue.
The final contact took place between East 95th and East 96th Street, when a 19th district patrol intercepted the suspect. The NYPD claims that the young man opened fire to the agents while some people were coming down from an MTA bus. The officers responded by firing and hitting the 20-year-old, then transferred to Mount Sinai where he was declared dead. The agents involved were taken to the hospital for investigations and the police claim to have recovered the weapon. The investigations continue to clarify the precise sequence of facts.
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