NEW YORK — A three-day manhunt in Brooklyn ended Wednesday morning with police fatally shooting a man they say shot and killed his neighbor and stepson on Sunday.
Officials said the suspect, Jason Pass, was hiding inside a vehicle in Bath Beach. Police were still awaiting a search warrant on the vehicle to see if the weapon allegedly used to kill the two people is still inside.
Police said the gun was not registered to Pass.
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Evidence cones were scattered throughout the corner of Bay 44th Street and Harway Avenue, with numerous police officers investigating. The scene was much calmer late Wednesday morning than it was earlier, when police say a wild encounter with the suspect ended deadly.
“They established dialogue, spoke for a few minutes, and that man lunged at one of the officers, causing the officers to fire for their own safety. A number of officers discharged their weapon,” NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said.
“My best friend let me know there are cops on the corner. They’re all dressed up and have guns out and then all of a sudden, within five minutes, you heard multiple gun shots. Boom, boom,” neighbor Rebecca Maristany said.
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Police said the person they shot was 47-year-old Pass, a Brooklyn man who was on the run after allegedly shooting his two upstairs neighbors dead on Sunday.
NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said while a hostage negotiation team was on its way, officers on scene tried to talk to Pass for 15 minutes before they were forced to shot him three times in the chest and once in the leg.
“He basically was saying, what was happening today was not going to end well,” Chell said.
Police said they used a license plate reader to find out where Pass was, locating him in his black Honda CRV.
“Captured the plate on a black car, indicting that the car and the occupant of the car were wanted for a double, horrific homicide,” Chell said. “As they exited their police car, they walked up to the car. The male jumped out of the car with a knife in his hand and took off running.”
Police allege Pass killed his upstairs neighbor, 47-year-old Bladimy Mathurin, and his 27-year-old stepson, Chinwai Mode, after having ongoing noise disputes. The shootings happened five miles away from Wednesday’s scene, inside their East Flatbush apartment building, so Bath Beach residents were shocked it escalated into their neighborhood.
“To know this took place right at the corner of my house in a time children were going to school, makes us feel uneasy,” Maristany said.
It is still unclear why Pass was hiding out in that section of Brooklyn, if he knew someone in the area, or if he was hiding in his car the whole time. Police are still looking into all of that.
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