An NYPD transit cop shot and killed a knife-wielding man who slashed the officers neck during a bloody clash in Brooklyn Thursday, officials said.
Officer Filippo Gugliara, 24, was at the Ocean Parkway station on the Q line in Coney Island at 1:15 p.m. when he saw a white-haired man in a purple shirt fighting with a woman in her 70s at the foot of the stairs, police sources said.
When Gugliara intervened, the 58-year-old man ran off, police sourceAn NYPD transit cop shot and killed a knife-wielding man who slashed the officers neck during a bloody clash in Brooklyn Thursday, officials said.
When Gugliara intervened, the 58-year-old ran off, police sources said.
The cop chased Tcherniak to Ocean Parkway and Seabreeze Ave. when the suspect turned and slashed at Gugliara with a five-inch Fallkniven hunting and fishing knife, cutting the cops shoulder and neck, police said.
Gugliara pulled his gun during the scuffle and fired twice, killing the older man, officials said.
Tcherniak was found sprawled out on the sidewalk face first in a pool of his own blood the $170 knife a few inches from his hand.