An NYPD officer shot and killed a man inside a Bronx apartment early Thursday morning after he refused to put down what appeared to be a gun, officials said.<\/p>\n
Members of the NYPD\u2019s Bronx warrant squad arrived at an apartment on Willis Avenue, near the Bruckner Boulevard in Mott Haven, around 6:45 a.m. to arrest 44-year-old Lucien Colon, who had active parole and bench warrants for failing to meet his reporting requirements as a New York state sex offender, police said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cHe’s a registered Level 3, and the requirements are that you report, you register yourself, and if you don’t register yourself, then you can be issued a warrant and arrested for that,\u201d Deputy Chief John Wilson, commanding officer of the NYPD\u2019s Fugitive Enforcement Unit, said at a press conference. \u201cAnd he didn\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n After a woman gave the officers permission to enter, they found Colon sitting on a bed with what looked like a firearm in his hand, Wilson said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe subject was told to show his hands, to which he responded, \u2018I have a gun,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThe officers ordered the male to step out of the room, to which he responded, \u2018It’s not gonna happen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Wilson said officers attempted to deescalate the situation, giving Colon \u201cmultiple commands\u201d to drop the weapon.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring this verbal interaction, which lasted for approximately a minute and a half, the officers showed extreme restraint and truly attempted to deescalate the situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n After Colon repeatedly refused to comply, one of the officers fired their gun, hitting Colon in the face, he added.<\/p>\n Colon was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Lincoln, where he was pronounced dead, Wilson said. The officers involved were removed to an area hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n NY1 spoke with Marivel Alicea Antionette outside the apartment building. She said she was Colon\u2019s girlfriend of nearly two years, and told NY1 she let the officers into the apartment when they knocked on the door.<\/p>\n She said she and her dog were in the hallway when the shooting happened.<\/p>\n “Everything just happened quick,” she said. “He’s the one that woke me up, and he says, ‘Babe, go open the door.’ And when I go open the door, that’s when [the officers] push me. And the next thing I know, they’re pulling out a gun on my dog, and I’m in the bathroom with my dog, and they break in my bedroom door and they tell him to come out and, he’s saying no.”<\/p>\n “They pushed me out from one area to another area to where the stairs is at, and they shoved me in then that hallway. That’s when I heard the gunshots,” she added. “And I heard more than three to four, five gunshots in my apartment.”<\/p>\n Wilson said Colon had been on parole since 2023 for a murder that took place in 2013. Colon was listed as a sex offender for a 1997 rape, and was also arrested for attempted murder in 1995, he said.<\/p>\n A firearm was recovered from the scene of the shooting, Wilson said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not sure yet if it\u2019s a real gun or not \u2014 you know, obviously, we have to do a crime scene,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not allowed to touch the gun until crime scene processes the scene, and we\u2019re getting a search warrant, so that\u2019s why we can\u2019t confirm that yet, whether it\u2019s a real gun or not. It\u2019s potentially a BB gun, but we\u2019re not sure.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The incident is being investigated by the NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYPD officer shot and killed a man inside a Bronx apartment early Thursday morning after he refused…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":700434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,191044,12170,7448,4219,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5292,292673,5305,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-700433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-app-crime","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-sarah-ng","tag-the-bronx","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116337157654815794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n