NYPD Releases Video of Fatal Police Shooting of Armed Mentally Ill Man
CIVIC CENTER — The NYPD released footage Thursday afternoon of officers fatally shooting a man armed with a knife and a fake gun after a standoff in his Eastchester apartment.
Miguel Richards, 31, can be seen in the recording wearing sunglasses and a polo shirt, standing stock-still in the corner of his third-floor apartment at 3700 Pratt Ave., near Conner Street, when officers Mark Fleming and Redmond Murphy confronted him about 4 p.m. on Sept. 6.
The officers spotted him holding a knife in one hand and hiding his other hand, which police later found out held a toy gun with a laser pointer.
"I don't want to shoot you. Put your hand up and drop that knife," one of the officers can be heard telling Richards.
Initially, only Fleming and Murphy are heard talking to Richards, but the landlord eventually got a friend of Richards to try and talk to him...