A convicted felon allegedly charged at cops in Brooklyn and acted like he had a gun — prompting officers to open fireplace, hitting the suspect twice, officers mentioned
Jamaul Bobb, who has 4 prior arrests together with one for allegedly slashing two folks with a scissors in Manhattan in January, at first fled when he was approached by officers Friday evening in East Flatbush, authorities mentioned.
The cops have been responding to a 911 name of a home assault with a knife once they encountered Bobb, 29, who allegedly ran for two 1/2 blocks earlier than he all of the sudden rotated and lunged.
“For an unknown motive he stops, he turns, he makes a number of intentional strikes like he has a firearm and expenses our police officer in a full dash from roughly 20 ft away,” NYPD Chief of Division John Chell mentioned at an early morning information convention on the scene.
The incident took about 4 seconds, Chell mentioned. The character of the connection between Bobb and the sufferer within the home assault wasn’t clear, cops mentioned.
Bobb was taken to a hospital in steady situation, cops mentioned.
He was additionally accused of threatening a person and asking him if he wished to die earlier than slashing the sufferer on the arm inside a homeless shelter on Duryea Place in Flatbush, sources mentioned. The homeless shelter slashing got here hours earlier than Bobb’s encounter with cops in East Flatbush.
Bobb has 4 prior arrests, together with three for assault and one for a gun, all in Midtown Manhattan, Chell mentioned. Bobb allegedly slashed two folks with a scissors at Seventh Avenue and West fortieth Avenue on Jan. 14, police sources mentioned. The end result of the case is unclear.
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