Dramatic video footage captured the moment NYPD cops shot and killed an armed man on a Brooklyn sidewalk Monday — as he chased the mugger who robbed him moments earlier, police and sources said.
Nathan Scott, 20, is seen chasing a couple down the street holding a 9 mm handgun around 5:55 p.m., with shots ringing out as they run for their lives near Remsen Avenue and East 57th Street.
That’s when cops are seen pulling up in a silver unmarked sedan, which comes to a screeching halt as at least four officers jump out and open fire, striking Scott with a barrage of bullets after he points a gun at them.
“Don’t move!” the cops are heard yelling after Scott falls to the ground.
He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A 60-year-old innocent bystander was hit by stray bullets in the shootout but it is unclear if the shots came from Scott or the police officers.
The unintended victim, Henry Massop, was working on a car in the street when he was shot twice — once in the side and once in the arm — in the crossfire, according to ABC 7.
He said he heard a commotion followed by a “pop pop” and his whole body cramped up. He then realized he had been shot, he told the news station from his hospital bed.
“I got one [bullet] in the belly side and then one stuck into the arm,” Massop said.
He will undergo surgery to remove the bullet still lodged in his arm. The bullet that pierced his torso went through him.
NYPD brass applauded the efforts of the officers involved in the shooting.
“That’s what New York City police officers do every day,” NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri said on PIX11 Tuesday morning.
“They drive towards gunfire, they run towards gunfire,” he said. “They actively engaged in the individual that was firing at two other individuals. New York City police officers have averaged 4,000 gun arrests over the past three years. That is at a 25-year high.”
Law enforcement sources said Scott had apparently just been mugged by 19-year-old Jeremiah Adams — the man seen high-tailing it down the street with an unidentified woman when cops pulled up.
The officers were canvassing the East Flatbush neighborhood when they stumbled upon the terrifying incident, NYPD officials said.
Sources said Adams confessed to cops that he robbed Scott — who he said chased him and the woman for several blocks — and still had his wallet on him after the shooting.
He has not immediately been charged with robbing Scott.
Adams and the woman were not injured. It isn’t clear if the woman was involved in the dispute that sparked the shooting.
However, Adams was busted in an unrelated case after being identified as the suspect in a March 7 armed robbery in Brownsville, according to sources.
He is accused of robbing an 18-year-old man on East New York Avenue and Mother Gaston Boulevard, shooting the victim once in the neck and once in the abdomen before taking off, sources said.
The sources said Adams also had two prior arrests for petit and grand larceny dating to July 2022.
Police also released an image of a Taurus gun recovered from the scene. No second firearm had been recovered as of Tuesday afternoon.
The officers involved in the incident were taken to the hospital for observation.
The bystander is expected to survive his injuries.
