NEW YORK — Police shot a man near Penn Station Thursday who wielded a meat cleaver at them.
Angry over his car that was booted, the man, identified by the New York Post as career criminal Akram Joudeh, started yelling and screaming at law enforcement officers, sources said.
At this point an off-duty detective stepped in to help and Joudeh allegedly swung the meat clever at the detective. The officers opened fire on the suspect.
“I heard a couple of shots. My coworker said she heard about 12 shots. It was fast. It was really fast. It lasted five minutes–10 minutes. She looked out the window and saw people running,” Madison Square Garden Network staffer Rick Stevens told The Daily Caller. “She said ‘don’t look out the window’ because there were still shots being fired.”
A bullet grazed one of the officers, TheDC learned. Another officer was injured as well.
The off-duty detective and both wounded officers were taken to the hospital for treatment, as was the suspect who was listed in critical condition.