Knife-Wielding Arsonist Shot By Police In Bayside, Cops Say

BAYSIDE, QUEENS — A Queens Village man who was shot by police Sunday afternoon has been charged with arson after lighting his car on fire and charging officers with a knife outside the Bayside police station, police said.

Jarrell Davis, 33, was arrested at 2 a.m. Monday morning just hours after he was taken to New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital with gunshot wounds in his torso and leg. He had been shot by cops around 3 p.m. outside NYPD's 111th Precinct police station on 215th Street after running at officers with a 12-inch kitchen knife.

Just moments before, Davis had lit his own car on fire after crashing it into one of the marked police SUVs outside the station. He had sprayed an accelerant on his own car and marked police cruisers before setting the blaze, Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison said in a press conference later that afternoon.

Police came out of the station and tried to approach Davis, who according to multiple reports was naked from the waist down, but he took out the knife and charged at the officers. The cops shot Davis multiple times in his torso and leg before he was taken to the hospital in stable condition, police said.

The two officers were also sent to North Shore Manhasset Hospital for evaluation.

Davis was charged with arson, attempted arson, four counts of menacing a police officer, three counts of reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon.