US EditionQueens Man Shot by NYPD During Mental Health Call Charged with Attempted Assault
- Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz indicted Jabez Chakraborty on assault and weapons charges, arraigned from his hospital bed and held on $50,000 bail on Feb. 13, 2026.
- After a 911 call reporting an emotional crisis at about 10:25 a.m., NYPD body-worn camera footage shows Chakraborty grabbing a knife and moving toward officers in Briarwood, Queens.
- Less than 30 seconds after officers entered, Chakraborty was critically wounded, underwent multiple surgeries, was placed on a ventilator, and remains hospitalized at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, prosecutors say.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged treatment rather than prosecution, saying Chakraborty should receive mental-health care and have his handcuffs removed, while advocates and the Legal Aid Society criticized the indictment noting no prior convictions.
- THE CITY reported that 86% of 911 mental-health calls are routed to the NYPD despite B-HEARD, and dispatch recordings show involuntary transport requests still trigger police response.
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'His handcuffs should be removed': Mamdani calls for man who charged cops with a knife to be freed · American Wire News
Leftist New York City (NYC) Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been going to bat for a violent schizophrenic criminal who was non-fatally shot by the police after he charged at them with a knife last month. The 22-year-old, Jabez Chakraborty, reportedly lunged at the police with a knife when they were called to his family’s home on Jan. 26 on account of him allegedly having a mental breakdown and throwing glass at the wall. In response, the police opened …
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UpstractMamdani urges prosecutors to drop charges against knife-wielding mentally ill man shot by cops
Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on Queens DA Melinda Katz to not prosecute Jabez Chakraborty, the knife-wielding mentally ill man shot by cops inside his home — just hours before he was arraigned from a hospital bed Friday.
Queens man shot by NYPD during mental health crisis indicted on assault charge
A 22-year-old Queens man who was shot multiple times by police during what authorities described as a mental health crisis has been indicted on attempted assault and weapon charges — prompting criticism from his defense attorneys and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. A grand jury indicted Jabez Chakraborty, of Briarwood, on charges of first-degree attempted assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz anno…
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