New York police kill man who tried to climb the Brooklyn Bridge

A man was fatally shot by New York City police on the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge in the early hours of Friday morning after ignoring orders to drop a knife. Police had received a 3:28am 911 call reporting that a man was walking on the bridge beams. Officers with the Emergency Services Unit (ESU) responded and spent nearly an hour trying to convince the man to climb down safely. The man, who claimed he wanted to die and had a bomb, refused to drop the knife and began to climb down quickly towards the officers, who were unable to move as fast due to being secured to the bridge with safety harnesses. An officer shot him once when he came within three feet of one of them with the knife extended. The man later died at the scene. The incident occurred four days after a woman stabbed two people in Times Square and was fatally shot by police, forcing the closure of the Brooklyn Bridge and causing traffic disruptions.