SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. — The New York Attorney General’s Office has released body camera video of a deadly police shooting that happened Sunday, July 13, in Centereach.
Officers from the Sixth Precinct responded around 8:48 a.m. to a disturbance behind 2505 Middle Country Road, where they found a 44-year-old man stabbed in the neck.
As medics treated the victim, Emilson Yoan Ordonez-Banegas, 29, emerged from a wooded area with a knife raised and charged at the wounded man, according to Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina.
An officer opened fire, striking Ordonez-Banegas. He was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police said Ordonez-Banegas was homeless.
Two officers were also hospitalized for tinnitus, a hearing-related condition possibly caused during the incident.