Police shot and killed a person wished in connection to 3 murders after he lunged at them with a knife inside a Brooklyn condo on Friday, authorities stated.
Members of the NYPD’s Warrant Squad have been seeking to bust 38-year-old Vilmond Jean-Baptiste on an open bench warrant when the chaos unfolded inside a constructing on East twenty first Road close to Dorchester Highway in Flatbush round 5:20 p.m., police stated.
As detectives entered a first-floor condo they discovered Jean-Baptiste “hiding within the bathtub” and observed he had a knife,” NYPD Chief of Division Jeffrey Maddrey informed reporters at a press convention.
Police ordered him to drop the blade and get out of the bathtub however he refused.
The investigators then tried to make use of a taser to subdue him, however he lunged at them — and three cops fired their weapons at Jean-Baptiste, in line with Maddrey.
Jean-Baptiste was taken to an area hospital the place he died from his wounds.
One officer was hit within the head with a bottle as police pulled Jean-Baptiste out of the constructing and was taken to an area hospital, in line with Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
Jean-Baptiste was a “robust particular person of curiosity” in three homicides, Kenny stated.
The suspect was wished in connection to the stabbing deaths of a person, 24, and lady, 68, whose putrefying our bodies have been found in a Brooklyn condo in July, sources informed The Put up.
The girl was discovered with stab wounds throughout her physique and a decomposed man was close by within the Ditmas Avenue residence she shared together with her son. A knife was additionally recovered.
Jean-Baptiste can be believed to be linked to a 66-year-old lady who was fatally stabbed in August in Brooklyn, Kenny stated.
The suspect was believed to have been in a romantic relationship with the 2 feminine victims, police stated.
“His MO appears to be that he begins thus far older ladies after which they permit him to reside of their home and use narcotics,” Kenny stated.
He had one prior arrest in 2015 for reckless endangerment and had a bench warrant issued for his arrest in Kings County in 2022, police stated.
