The knife-wielding suspect wounded by an officer in a controversial NYPD “friendly fire” subway shooting told officers, “You're trying to make me kill you,” prosecutors said in court Friday.
During the arraignment of Derrell Mickles, 37, in a Brooklyn courtroom, new details emerged about the tense Sunday standoff that ended with police firing, shooting Mickles, two innocent bystanders and an officer.
Two bystanders and one police officer were injured in the shooting.
Deputy District Attorney Steven Bravo, who presented body camera footage of the incident, said Mickles was seen on video from his hospital bed jumping turnstiles for the second time within nine minutes and holding a knife as two officers pursued him.
Describing the body camera footage, Bravo said Mickles told officers, “If you don't leave me alone, I'm going to kill you.”
Officers repeatedly told Mickles to drop the knife, Bravo said.
“The defendant is essentially saying, 'Don't drop the knife. Shoot me,'” he said.
Mickles was ordered held on $200,000 full secured bail or $1.5 million partial secured bail.
