September 15, 2013 Glenn Broadnax Times Square Standoff Two police officers fired shots at an agitated man Glenn Broadnax, 35, of Brooklyn but instead hit two women bystanders. Broadnex appeared to be throwing himself in the path of traffic in Times Square.
Broadnex is 6-feet-5 and weighs 295 pounds and appeared to be staggering under the influence of drugs.Then he reached into his pocket appearing to shoot at officers. Broadnax was reaching for his wallet, not a gun, when police opened fire. Broadnax told detectives after his arrest that he’d been talking to dead relatives in his head and was trying to throw himself into oncoming traffic to take his own life. Two women who were bystanders were wounded in the crossfire, a 54-year-old woman was hit in the leg, while a 35-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet. Prosecutors charged Broadbox who "recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death." Attorney Mariann Wang wanted to blame the police: "It’s an incredibly unfortunate use of prosecutorial discretion to be prosecuting a man who didn’t even injure my client" This was another shooting of an unarmed man after a man was shot in North Carolina after he lunged at officers who shot after they could not subdue him.
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of two shootings by police last year that occurred in full view of bystanders in midtown Manhattan. In one incident, near the Empire State Building, several passersby were injured when police opened fire on a gun-wielding man who had just shot to death his former employer. The man was killed. A few days later, police chased a knife-wielding man several blocks from Times Square to 37th Street after he had threatened an officer and shot him to death on the street.
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A grand jury indicted an unarmed, emotionally disturbed man on assault charges after police opened fire on him near New York City’s Times Square and wounded two bystanders.
.. An officer finally subdued Broadnax with a Taser stun gun, and he was initially arrested on misdemeanor charges of drug possession, menacing and resisting arrest.
But the Manhattan district attorney’s office brought the case before a grand jury and secured a nine-count indictment on felony charges that carry a possible 25-year prison sentence.
The indictment said Broadnax “recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death.”
Prosecutors said Broadnax created the situation that left innocent bystanders with gunshot wounds, although he was not armed himself.
- Los Angeles Times - 5 hours agoA woman is hospitalized and a man was facing several criminal charges Monday after a shooting near Times Square in New York.
shooting near Times Square that officials say was prompted by the man’s desire to commit suicide by getting himself run over.
The man, Glenn Broadnax, 35, of Brooklyn, was not injured in the Saturday night chaos, which erupted a block from the heart of Times Square on the corner of 8th Avenue and West 42nd Street. Broadnax was charged Sunday with menacing, riot, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and other charges.
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