NYPD shoots man with butcher knife during Manhattan standoff

New York police shot and critically injured a man after he refused to drop a butcher knife during a domestic dispute call on Sunday. The incident occurred shortly before 16:30 local time on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Officers from the NYPD's 7th Precinct responded to a 911 call and found blood on a staircase at a building on Ludlow Street. A man then came down the stairs carrying a butcher knife. Police ordered him repeatedly to drop the weapon, and when he did not comply, they used a Taser, which had no effect, timesnownews.com reports. Officers then fired at least four shots at the man, who was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition. A second man was found at the scene with a head gash and is expected to survive. Police recovered the butcher knife at the scene. The circumstances leading up to the confrontation remain under investigation.