Once again, our officers ran toward gunfire and bravely confronted danger,” said Eger, the NYPD borough commander, at a news conference held steps away from where the man was mortally wounded. Eger was was joined at the conference by Amir Yakatally,

A 55-year-old gun-wielding man was shot dead by police in an apparent act of suicide-by-cop in the parking lot of a Staten Island Home Depot Thursday morning, authorities and sources said. The armed man was inside a black Jeep Wrangler around 5:20 a.