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Driver fatally shot by NYPD on Belt Parkway after ramming police and civilian cars in Brooklyn: Police
Police said the driver rammed vehicles and ignored a Taser and pepper spray before officers opened fire, and investigators are probing a possible domestic dispute.
- On Saturday night, the New York City Police Department fatally shot an unidentified man on the Belt Parkway after he rammed police and civilian vehicles during a traffic stop. The incident followed emergency calls reporting a woman screaming inside a white van near Coney Island.
- Emergency calls at 7:19 p.m. alerted authorities to a woman screaming "Let me go" inside a white van near Coney Island. Police later confirmed the woman had escaped safely before officers arrived on scene.
- After fleeing the initial traffic stop, the driver repeatedly rammed police and civilian vehicles on the highway. Officers attempted to subdue him using pepper spray and a Taser, but when these proved ineffective, they opened fire.
- NYPD Assistant Chief Charles Minch, commander of Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, revealed the suspect was wanted for unlawful imprisonment last month and domestic assault earlier this month. The driver was pronounced dead at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.
- Saturday's incident marked at least the tenth fatal officer-involved shooting in New York City in 2026. The NYPD's Force Investigation Division is conducting a formal investigation into the circumstances, with body camera footage captured during the encounter.
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Police said they shot a kidnapping suspect to death on Brooklyn’s Belt Parkway Saturday night, who had a history of domestic violence cases, after he used his car to ram police and civilian vehicles in an attempt to escape. According to NYPD Assistant Chief Charles Minch, it began just before 7:20 p.m., when a man...
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