A police officer shot and seriously wounded a man who charged at him with scissors in a building across the street from Brooklyn Technical HS in Fort Greene, according to authorities and sources.
The gunfire broke out just before 3:22 p.m. inside the apartment building 48 Fort Greene Place, between Lafayette and DeKalb avenues, authorities said.
Law-enforcement sources said the cop, who was alone, had been on his way to traffic court when a frantic person approached him and asked for help, saying there was a man wielding a sharp object.
The cop then went to 48 Fort Greene Place, where he confronted that man, who was wielding a pair of scissors, sources said.
When the man lunged at the cop, the officer fired a single round, hitting the man in the stomach, the source said.
The man, who is around 40 years old, was rushed to nearby Kings County Hospital, where he is not expected to live.
"All I heard was a gunshot," said Thomas McCormick, who lives several doors away from 48 Fort Greene Place.
"I looked out the window, and the whole block was locked down. They dragged someone into an ambulance, and they took off down the block."
McCormick said he recognized the shot man as a resident of the building where he was shot. That man, whose name he did not know, weighs about 260-pounds and is bald.
Students from Brooklyn Technical were being dismissed from the school at the exit a block away from the shooting scene.
An officer involved in the shooting was transported to Methodist Hospital, but it is not known if that officer was injured in the incident.
Additional reporting by Kirstan Conley, Amy Stretten, Amber Sutherland and C.J. Sutherland
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