NYPD detectives shot and killed a man after he fired at another man during a fight that spilled out of a bodega in the Bronx Thursday morning, officials said. 

The 21-year-old man was inside a bodega on Gun Hill Road, at the corner of Hull Avenue in Norwood, around 11:30 a.m. when a 29-year-old man double-parked a Lexus, entered the store and began struggling with him, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a news briefing. 

As the fight escalated, the 29-year-old stabbed the 21-year-old with a knife, Essig said. The 21-year-old then chased the 29-year-old out of the bodega and fired a gun at him at “point-blank range,” the official said. 

What You Need To Know

  • NYPD detectives shot and killed a man after he fired at another man during a fight that spilled out of a bodega in the Bronx Thursday morning, officials said

  • The incident took place in the Norwood section of the Bronx around 11:30 a.m., police said

  • Neither man had any connection to the bodega, according to police. Officers recovered a knife and gun at the scene

After the gunman fired, two plainclothes detectives who had been conducting an unrelated investigation in the area “confronted” him, before firing at him “numerous times,” Essig said. 

One detective fired two rounds, while the other fired 10, he said. It wasn’t immediately clear which shots hit the man. 

Emergency responders took the 21-year-old man to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi, where he was pronounced dead, Essig said. 

Police found the 29-year-old man who was shot inside a barber shop with a graze wound to his head not long after, according to Essig. He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. 

Neither man had any connection to the bodega, Essig noted. Officers recovered both the knife and the gun at the scene, he said.

The two detectives were not wearing body cameras when they shot at the man who died, he added. 

Police didn’t immediately release the name of the man who died. An investigation is ongoing.