A person was shot by NYPD officers who were apparently trying to break up a fight in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, police said, stressing the preliminary nature of the investigation. A report of the shooting at Utica Avenue and Avenue K came in just before 2 p.

A New York City Police detective shot a man armed with a box cutter in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon, police say. It happened just before 2 p.m. near Utica Avenue and Avenue K in the Flatlands neighborhood.

A man was shot and injured during a police involved shooting in Brooklyn on Wednesday. The incident happened around 1:50 p.m. near Avenue K and Utica Avenue in Flatlands, police said. The NYPD advised people to stay away from the area around Avenue K and Utica Avenue.

Police shot a maniac after he lunged at them with a box cutter in Brooklyn Wednesday, leaving him clinging to life, sources said.

Sources say there was a dispute between two people before the shooting and that a box cutter was involved in the incident.

Authorities have launched a search for an armed suspect after a man was shot and killed in Brooklyn on Tuesday, according to the NYPD. Gunfire broke out around 2:15 p.m. on Meserole Street near Union Avenue in Williamsburg,

A man carrying a box cutter was shot by NYPD detectives after allegedly lunging at them during an alteraction in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon. FOX 5's Linda Schmidt is on the scene.

Officers shot a man wielding a box cutter at the corner of Utica Ave. and Avenue K in Flatlands about 1:50 p.m., police said.

A man carrying a box cutter was shot in the chest by police in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon. It happened at Utica Ave and Avenue K in the Flatlands section, just before 2 p.m. Two detectives from the 63rd precinct were driving eastbound on Avenue K when they saw two men fighting on the street.