By Kerry Burke and Elizabeth Keogh
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — A gun-toting 79-year-old man who showed up outside a Queens police station Tuesday night was fatally shot by cops, police said.
The elderly man, behind the wheel of a white Lexus, pulled up outside the NYPD’s 111th Precinct stationhouse on the corner of 215th St. and Northern Blvd. in Bayside around 6:40 p.m. , NYPD Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera said at a news conference.
He then confronted a uniformed officer assigned to stationhouse security and “suddenly displayed a firearm and pointed it at the officer,” Rivera said.
The officer repeatedly instructed the elderly man to drop the gun, and when backup officers arrived and issued the same command, the man continued to aim the weapon at them.
Four cops fired their weapons, striking the man numerous times. Police performed CPR on the gunman as medics rushed to the scene. He was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens, where he died.
The officers who fired their weapons were taken to an area hospital for observation, but none were injured in the shooting.
Police recovered a loaded Cobra .38 Special from the scene. The precinct’s glass windows were shattered after officers fired their weapons inside the vestibule.
The man, who lived in Great Neck , L.I., had one prior arrest for drug possession in the 1990s, cops said.
Police are investigating if the gunman may have been looking to die at the hands of cops, according to police sources.
Earlier Tuesday, the gunman was reported missing from his home in Nassau County , L.I., with his family noting he was in poor mental health, the sources added.
In a post on X, the NYPD asked people to avoid the area as the investigation proceeded.
It was the second police-involved shooting in the city on Tuesday.
“Our officers are confronted with extremely dangerous and unpredictable situations,” Rivera said. “This is the second time in less than 12 hours that our officers have been confronted by armed individuals.”
An ex-con on parole shot and wounded an NYPD detective before he was shot by cops during a wild four-hour standoff on the Lower East Side early Tuesday, officials said.
Detective Terry Avent , a 21-year veteran and member of the NYPD’s elite Emergency Service Unit, was executing a search warrant in the Vladeck Houses on Madison St. when 35-year-old Edwin Rivera opened fire at the officers, striking the detective in the shoulder.
Officers fired back, striking Rivera multiple times in the side. Both men were taken to Bellevue Hospital , where they are expected to recover.
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