Upon arriving on the eighth floor of the hospital, police gave the suspect verbal commands to exit the room and drop the weapon.

Two officers deployed their tasers at him after an altercation — but it failed to stop the man, according to witnesses and sources.

Officials said Friday that the 62-year-old Brooklyn man fatally shot by police at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital had no criminal record. He was armed with a piece of a toilet seat he had broken off and was using it to repeatedly cut himself. He also tried to cut another patient and a security guard, officials said.

Two men were shot inside a Brooklyn bodega on Friday, police said. According to the NYPD, a 24-year-old was shot in the face, and a 26-year-old was shot in the back. BROOKLYN - Two men were shot on Friday afternoon inside a bodega in Brooklyn, the NYPD said.

The victims, both unidentified men, were shot inside the deli on Flatbush Ave. near Newkirk Ave. in Flatbush around 2:47 p.m., and are reportedly in stable condition, said police.

Police officers shot and killed a man who had barricaded himself with two others on the eighth floor of New York Presbyterian Methodist Hospital on Thursday evening.

A reward is being offered, leading to an arrest after two men were shot inside a bodega in Brooklyn on Friday afternoon.

A patient at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital was shot and killed by police after taking two hostages with a sharp object, police said. Police

Michael Lynch, 62, of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, resigned from the NYPD in the 1990s, according to police officials and his family.