Dwayne Jeune, 32, was shot five times during a brief confrontation inside the East Flatbush apartment he shared with his elderly parents, law-enforcement sources said.
Officer Miguel Gonzalez opened fire after another cop tried to subdue Jeune with a Taser, “which proved to be ineffective,” NYPD Chief of Patrol Terence Monahan said.
Four uniformed cops from the 67th Precinct went to the apartment, Monahan said, and the “incident unraveled within seconds of the officers entering.”
Chief Monahan said investigators hadn’t determined how many shots were fired Monday, but Jeune’s neighbor, Charmaine Goodin, said one round whizzed through her apartment and pierced a bottle of seltzer on the dining-room table while her 14-year-old daughter slept.
Instead of compassion and help they just shot in him in cold blood. His parents just wanted him to be safe. And it’s not only that they shot a person, who needed support and medical help, they also have put someone else’s life in danger, like this 14-year-old girl, who was victim’s neighbor.
They should have waited for trained professionals , who were able to restrain a mentally ill person instead of shooting him. One more life lost to unprofessionalism and brutality of our police.