New body camera footage shows a man with a knife charging at a man in a Queens hallway minutes after he allegedly stabbed his wife during a family party in March, and a police officer fatally shooting him.
video, New York City Police Department announced On Monday, Jamshed Nematov was seen approaching two police officers and a sergeant shortly after arriving on the second floor of a Forest Hills apartment building on March 8, brandishing a large knife in his right hand. is reflected.
Footage from three different body cameras showed officers yelling for Nematov to drop the 12-inch knife before firing multiple shots quickly at the 46-year-old suspect. .
As the deafening gunfire rang out, one officer was heard saying, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop.”
Nematov immediately collapsed to the ground and the woman’s screams of terror could be heard. He later died at the hospital.
Police say Officer Kimberly O’Rourke fired one shot and Michael Taveras fired three shots during the heart-pounding confrontation.
Raymond DeCostanzo also used a Taser during the incident, according to footage from Sgt.
Loved ones previously told The Post that police arrived on the scene after reports that Nematov had stabbed his 43-year-old wife in the stomach in front of other partygoers, including their children. .
His wife, Amira Nematov, survived with a knife.
His wife’s brother said in an interview in March that the couple’s relationship had been strong, but had recently begun to crumble.
“Things were great for them until last month,” he said. “That’s when they started having marital problems.”
Another relative said Nematov, a father of four, was suffering from mental health issues at the time of the shooting.
“He was hallucinating. He might have been depressed. Mental health. … Something was going on in his head,” a relative said.
NYPD spokesman Carlos Nieves said in a video message accompanying body camera footage that the city’s investigative division continues to investigate the shooting.
The New York State Attorney General’s Office also launched an investigation under state law after the shooting.
