Bed-Stuy Hostage Crisis Ends As Man Shoots Himself, Police Say

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — A man shot himself in the head after barricading himself into a Bed-Stuy apartment for hours Wednesday, police said.

The situation began after the gunman shot another 28-year-old man, thought to be his landlord, twice around 2 p.m., the NYPD said.

He then locked himself into a fourth floor apartment at 565 Gates Avenue as specially trained police hostage negotiators tried to talk to him for nearly two hours, the NYPD said.

A spokesman said they were unable to make contact and made the decision to go into the apartment at 4:10 p.m.

Police said they found the man with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head and two firearms underneath his body in the apartment's bedroom. He was taken to Kings Hospital, where the 28-year-old had been taken earlier.

The condition of neither man was known Wednesday afternoon. It is unknown if anybody else was involved.

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