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(CBS/WCBS/AP) NEW YORK - Police say they shot and killed a man in midtown Manhattan over the weekend, just blocks away from Times Square after he allegedly charged officers with a kitchen knife.


According to CBS New York, police identified the man as 51-year-old Darius Kennedy of Hempstead, Long Island. Police said Kennedy was smoking marijuana near the military recruiting station when officers approached him around 3 p.m. Saturday. When police asked for identification, police say Kennedy instead pulled out an 11-inch knife.



It sounds to me like this guy had mental issues or maybe wanted to die via cop? But I think fatally shooting him and perhaps, giving him his wish was unjustified. They could've pegged this guy in the arm or leg and have taken him down from there. Even though he was swinging at the cops and people on the street. The thing could've ended by just clipping him in the knee with a bullet or two.