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Murder suspect fatally shot by police in Brooklyn apartment

Police shot and killed a man wanted in connection to multiple murders after he lunged at them with a knife inside a Brooklyn apartment building on Friday, sources said.

NYPD cops fired at the armed suspect inside of the building on East 21st Street near Dorchester Road in Flatbush around 5:30 p.m., according to law enforcement sources.

When police approached the man he was wielding a knife, sources said.

Cops then tried to use a taser to subdue him, but he lunged at them, leading police to open fire.


The man was shot and killed by police inside of a Flatbush apartment on Friday evening. David Burns

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The man who was shot was wanted in connection to multiple murders, sources told The Post. William Lopez

The suspect was wanted in connection to the deaths of a man and woman whose putrefying bodies were discovered in a Brooklyn apartment in July, sources told The Post.

The woman was found with stab wounds all over her body and a decomposed man was nearby in the Ditmas Avenue residence she shared with her son. A knife was also recovered.

The suspect is also believed to be connected to another killing in Brooklyn, sources said.

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