NYPD Kills 48-Year-Old Brooklyn Gunman After Shootout Wounds Officer

3 articles · Updated · Gothamist · Jun 19

Bedford-Stuyvesant police shot and killed 48-year-old Lamin Simmons after he barricaded himself in a brownstone and wounded NYPD Detective Matthew Gale in the leg during a Friday morning gunfight.
More than 20 rounds were fired before officers arrived around 5:46 a.m., and Simmons allegedly opened fire again from the second floor after negotiators tried to talk him into surrendering.
Gale, an emergency service unit detective, was hospitalized in stable condition, while Simmons' wife and son told officers he had a history of mental illness.
Police said the confrontation appears to have begun with a dispute between Simmons and an elderly couple living upstairs, and the shooting remains under investigation.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited Gale at the hospital and said the case would not have qualified for New York City's B-HEARD mental-health response program because it involved violence and weapons.