NYPD officers kill man in a shootout after he threatened people and a hospital

NEW YORK -- A man with a gun was killed Thursday in a shootout with police in New York City after he pointed his weapon at a man in an apartment building elevator and a deli worker and threatened to shoot up a hospital, police said. New York Police Department officers took the man to a hospital in a police vehicle and he was pronounced dead, Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera told reporters. Police officers were taken to a hospital for evaluation. The man was in an elevator in a residential building in Manhattan’s Upper East Side around 7 p.m. when spoke to another man and then pulled out a firearm and pointed it at him, police said. Police said the man then went to a nearby deli, pointed a gun at a worker behind the counter and told him to call 911, saying he was going to a hospital to shoot i