Police shot and seriously wounded a 40-year-old 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 hulking, 260-pound man, identified as Keary Green, who was wielding a pair of scissors, sources said.
When Green allegedly unged at the cop, the officer fired a single round, hitting the man in the stomach, the source said.
Green was rushed to nearby Kings County Hospital.
"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."
Residents of the block described Green as violent, and said his girlfriend lived in the building where he was shot.
"He was crazy! She was afraid of him," said a long-time resident of the block about Green and his girlfriend.. "He looked crazy . . . like he shouldn't be on the streets.
"She always looked scared," said the resident about Green's girlfriend.
"He was physically, mentally, verbally abusive. She know him from living on Long Island," the resident said. "I think they went to high school together. She knew him for some time . . . I think he tried to reel her back or something. He was just an abusive guy. He just looked crazy!"
Students from Brooklyn Technical were being dismissed from the school at the exit a block away from the shooting scene.
The 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 Larry Celona, Amy Stretten, Amber Sutherland and C.J. Sutherland
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