NEW YORK - A 33-year-old man with psychiatric disorders was shot down by a policeman on Friday night after he used a chair to hit another officer in New York, USA.
The incident occurred in a beauty salon in Brooklyn where two police officers who patrolled the area entered. As it transpired, local workers signaled for officers to take a beggar who had entered and urinated on the ground.
Once at the site, the agents realized that the subject had an arrest warrant, and while they were preparing to take him into custody, a street vendor who traded shirts in front of the room entered and lashed out at the officers.
According to the New York Police Department, the man, identified as Kwesi Ashun, 33, took a metal chair and threw it at one of the policemen, to which the other agent responded by operating an electric gun against the subject .
The laser was not effective and Ashun continued his attack, authorities said. They added that the officer hit with the chair then managed to draw his weapon and make six shots, of which at least one hit the man in his head and caused him to die on the spot.
It is unknown if Ashun was related to the beggar, but police say he had been arrested in 2004 for allegedly attacking a policeman and causing a cut in his face. His family, meanwhile, said he suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
"He struggled with a mental illness and we desperately tried to get help for him in vain," his sister, Ama Bartley, told the New York Post.
The officer hit with the chair was transferred to a medical center where he was placed in an induced coma due to head trauma, and remains in a critical but stable condition. As it transpired, Ashun himself designed and embroidered by hand the shirts he sold in the area and promoted on Instagram.
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