NYPD cops shoot, kill man pointing toy gun after he refuses orders to drop it Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/03/08/2010-03-08_co

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BY Edgar Sandoval and Rocco Parascandola DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Cops in Brooklyn shot dead a man who pointed an imitation pistol at them in a Monday afternoon confrontation outside an elementary school. Students at Public School 194, in Sheepshead Bay , had been dismissed a half-hour earlier, but some were in a fenced-off area nearby, witnesses said. Police were called to the scene, on Knapp Street, after getting a 911 call about a man with a gun. When uniformed officers from the 61st Precinct arrived at about 3:10 p.m., the 22-year-old suspect pointed the silver gun – inscribed with Zebra-II – at them and refused orders to drop it, police sources said. “We fired three times,” the source said. Maureen Quinn , who lives nearby, said she ran out of her house and “saw a body laying down on the street.” Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/03/08/2010-03-08_cops_shoot_dead_man_pointing_suspected_toy_gun_after_he_refuses_orders_to_drop_i.html#ixzz0heZYLTb2

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NYPD cops shoot, kill man pointing toy gun after he refuses orders to drop it Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/03/08/2010-03-08_co

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