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The knife-wielding man who was shot by police minutes after he allegedly stabbed a Queens church safety guard has been charged, police mentioned Friday morning.
Richard Moncrieffe, 59, was shot when he ignored officers’ instructions to drop the knife outdoors the First Presbyterian Church on 164th Street in Jamaica round 3:45 p.m. Thursday, authorities mentioned.
By Friday morning, he remained hospitalized however was charged with assault, menacing a police officer, menacing and felony possession of a weapon, cops mentioned.
Moncrieffe has no recognized felony historical past, however a historical past of psychological sickness, police mentioned.
The guard was stabbed outdoors the church’s administrative constructing after a lady seen a person performing “erratically” with a knife in his hand, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell mentioned throughout a Thursday night press convention.
The injured guard retreated again contained in the constructing and 911 was referred to as.
The suspect was noticed on an adjoining staircase of the church as soon as police arrived, Chell mentioned.
“He was advancing on our officers and so they needed to make a troublesome determination,” Chell mentioned, noting the officers knew once they arrived {that a} sufferer had already been stabbed.
Both Moncrieffe and the wounded guard had been hospitalized in steady situation.
The officers had been additionally taken to a neighborhood hospital.
Chell mentioned the guard’s actions prevented Moncrieffe from probably stepping into the church’s administrative constructing, which was occupied on the time.
“That particular person will get into the constructing, it is a completely different information convention,” Chell mentioned.
The taking pictures was one among three incidents during which NYPD officers fired their weapons at an armed suspect on Thursday.
Hours earlier, police fatally shot an armed Brooklyn home-owner, who they are saying “charged” at officers, as they had been responding to a housebreaking name at his residence.
Then later round 8 p.m., police shot a gun-wielding man who grew to become sandwiched between cops on the catwalk subsequent to subway tracks within the Bronx – and allegedly refused to drop the weapon.
He was hospitalized in steady situation.
