Police racing into a Lower East Side building Sunday found a 75-year-old father with a head wound upstairs, then had to stop his 54-year-old son, who was still holding a butcher knife, authorities said.
Wei Chan was killed inside the Ludlow Street building after the NYPD said he advanced toward officers and ignored repeated orders to put down the large blade.
His father, Chung Chan, survived the attack and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
Sources said the elder Chan did not know his son was dead.
The NYPD said investigators determined Wei Chan had slashed his father in the head before police arrived for the 4 p.m. assault call.
The officers found blood inside the building before they reached the second-floor scene.
“Officers entered the building, saw the trail of blood and responded without hesitation, not knowing what was waiting for them as they went up the stairs,” Assistant Chief Melissa Eger said at a press conference later that evening.
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Eger said Wei Chan met the officers with the butcher knife as they moved upstairs.
Police said the officers told him several times to drop the weapon.
He kept coming.
“Officers responded and discharged their firearms, striking the subject,” Eger said.
Witness video showed emergency workers trying to revive Wei Chan before he was transported to Bellevue Hospital.
The NYPD said he died at the hospital.
No officers were wounded, and police recovered the knife from the apartment.
Police said Wei Chan had no prior criminal history with the NYPD, though the department said he had a documented mental health history.
The bloody Manhattan call was the lead case in a string of violent weekend and recent police responses involving armed suspects, wounded civilians and officers forced into gunfire.
In Houston, a man accused of firing at cars along Wayside Drive hit three people before police shot him, authorities said.
The Houston Police Department said officers were sent to the area around 11 a.m. after reports that someone was shooting at vehicles.
A man with a gun was still there when officers arrived, police said.
After officers ordered him to drop the weapon, three officers and a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper opened fire at some point.
The suspect was hit multiple times and taken to a hospital. No officers were injured.
Police said a mother and daughter were shot in one vehicle. Another person was wounded in a second vehicle, while someone in a third vehicle escaped unharmed.
New York had another deadly scene in Brooklyn, where a mother of five was killed after bullets flew during a Sunday morning fight outside Ooh La La Lounge in Crown Heights.
Sofronie Hartzog, 33, was struck in the back near Bergen Street and Howard Avenue around 2:23 a.m., police and sources said.
Police said she and a 34-year-old man shot in the gut were not the intended targets.
The fight outside the bar involved about 100 people, according to the NYPD.
Investigators had not determined what started the dispute.
Hartzog made it into the lounge after she was hit, then collapsed in a bathroom.
Medics brought her to One Brooklyn Health-One Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, but she died from her injuries.
The 34-year-old man was taken to NYC Health and Hospitals/Kings County Hospital in stable condition.
Sources said two men were initially taken into custody because they resembled suspects in the shooting, but they were released after police determined they were not involved.
Police were still searching for the gunmen.
In Las Vegas, a call about an armed person earlier in August left a Marine veteran and police officer dead.
Officers and police drones were sent shortly before 4 p.m. to a business in the 4500 block of East Tropicana Avenue after a caller said someone was waving a firearm and appeared to be intoxicated, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Police later identified the officer as Austin Abdelnabi.
The LVMPD said Abdelnabi was “tragically killed in the line of duty while responding to a call involving a person with a gun.”
Police said officers found the armed suspect near Mountain Vista Street and the Interstate 11 underpass.
The suspect fired at officers, and at least one officer fired back.
The suspect died at the scene.
Abdelnabi was wounded and taken to University Medical Center, where Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said nurses tried to save him.
McMahill said the 30-year-old officer had served with the police department since November 2023.
“A 30-year-old Las Vegas police officer was then worked on heroically by the Clark County Fire Department, other officers and EMS,” McMahill said during a news briefing. “He was transported to UMC where nurses worked to save his life.”
“Unfortunately, our officer has passed,” the sheriff continued.
McMahill remembered Abdelnabi as “a person who served this country and this community.”
“As you can imagine, I have lots of grieving police officers and a grieving community,” McMahill said.
