Special operations officers had been called to the Long Island suburb after reports that a man had been seen carrying weapons in the area.The plain clothes officers had spotted the suspect in a room of a house owned by his parents near the Long Island Rail line on Front Street where he had barricaded himself.
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After evacuating all other residents from the property, officers entered to confront the suspect.It was then that he lunged at the officers and, in the resulting melee, the officer was fatally shot.
Nassau County Police Lieutenant Kevin Smith twas reported as saying: ‘What happened pretty much still remains a little bit unclear. But what we’ve determined so far is that, at one point, this individual exits that back bedroom, he begins to run at the police officers, he challenges them, he lunges at them with his arms up in the air, the officers are forced to defend themselves, and shoot in his direction.’
While Nassau police would not confirm the ‘friendly fire’ reports, a spokesman did reveal that two other officers were sent to the hospital with ‘trauma-related’ injuries.
The suspect, who has also not been named and is believed to be in his twenties, was also shot and killed.
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