Last night police officers shot and killed a man in his Bronx apartment to stop him from beating his mother with a frying pan. Relatives of the 61-year-old woman had called 911 to say they were "concerned," and when police arrived at around 11 p.m. at 3055 Third Avenue, they heard the disturbance from within the apartment. The superintendent unlocked the door, but it was chained shut on the inside; through the opening, they saw an unidentified 32-year-old man standing over the injured woman, City Room reports.
After officers forced their way inside, the man ignored repeated orders to drop the frying pan, and allegedly charged toward the officers, according to ABC News. Several rounds were fired and the man was pronounced dead on the scene. The victim is at Lincoln Hospital with a fractured skull, arm, and shin.
