NYPD officers kill man in a shootout after he threatened people and a hospital

A man with a gun was killed in a shootout with police in New York City after he pointed his weapon at a man in an apartment building elevator and a deli worker and threatened to shoot up a hospital, police said.

New York Police Department officers took the man to a hospital in a police vehicle Thursday and he was pronounced dead, Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera told reporters. Police officers were taken to a hospital for evaluation.

The man was in an elevator in a residential building in Manhattan’s Upper East Side around 7 p.m. when he spoke to another man and then pulled out a firearm and pointed it at him, police said.

Police said the man then went to a nearby deli, pointed a gun at a worker behind the counter and told him to call 911, saying he was going to a hospital to shoot it up.

Shortly after, the man briefly entered Mount Sinai Medical Center before leaving and placing a firearm on the ground, police said. He then went back inside, where he told a police officer working a paid security job that he had a gun, police said.

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