Top police defended officers involved in a subway shooting in Brooklyn over the weekend.

Police said 37-year-old Derell Mickles charged at officers with a knife before shots rang out.

“A narrative that we shot someone over a $2.90 fare is wrong,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said during a press conference Wednesday.

According to investigators, officers interacted with Mickles twice that day. When Mickles jumped the turnstile in front of officers, who then asked him to leave. When Mickles left, he displayed a knife and returned with that knife minutes later.

That’s when police said they met him a second time and followed him toward the subway platform.

“Officers follow up to the platform where they give multiple commands to drop knife. These commands were issues over thirty times,” Chell said.

Chell said officers followed Mickles into a train car and discharged their tasers which proved ineffective.

They moved to the platform, which is when police say Mickles charged at the officers with the eight-inch knife.

According to officials, responding officers shot at Mickles, striking him and two bystanders. One officer was also hit in the armpit.

The family of 49-year-old Gregory Delpeche, one of the bystanders, says he has brain damage after NYPD officers accidentally shot him in the head while he was on his way to work at Woodhull Hospital.

“When I got to the hospital, and I saw it was him, I broke down. But I had to control myself because I’m the one who has to go through all of this to support him,” Greg Nougues, Delpeche’s cousin, said.

“As it stands today, we do not have a fair and full story of what happened during the shooting. We only have their word,” Nicholas Liakas, a lawyer for Delpeche’s family, said.

Chell said body camera footage will be released in the coming days.

Mickles has been charged with attempted assault, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing, according to officials.

The injured officer, Mickles and the bystander who was grazed are all expected to recover, officials said.

Relatives said Delpeche’s prognosis is unclear at this time.

“Let me be clear, this is a tragedy for everyone involved,” Thoman Donlon, interim police commissioner, said at the briefing.

According to Chief of Transit Michael Kemper, fare evasion stops have helped to recover nearly 500 knives in the transit system this year.

Nearly 50 guns have been taken out of the system so far this year as well. Kemper said almost half of those were found after a fare evasion stop.