Long Island Man Killed by Police After Stabbing Student at Brooklyn Synagogue

Warning: The video below contains graphic language and content.

A Valley Stream man was shot and killed by police after he stabbed a rabbinical student inside a Brooklyn synagogue early Tuesday morning.

Calvin Peters, 49, was brandishing a nine-inch kitchen knife when he entered Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights at about 1:40 a.m. and began yelling “kill the Jews,” according to DNAinfo.

Inside, Peters stabbed Levi Rosenblat, a 22-year-old Israeli rabbinical student, in the head before several people intervened, according to the report.

A bystander found police at a nearby intersection and officers immediately responded to the scene.

The terrifying scene was caught on camera by a bystander and shows Peters walking into the room from an unlit area with witnesses standing back and yelling. Police arrive and draw their guns as bystanders try to calm the situation.

“You going to shoot me?” Peters asks as police instruct him to put the knife down. He initially puts the knife down but quickly picks it up again, steps toward the officer, and walks toward the cameraman. The video ends as a single gunshot is heard off-camera.

Watch the video of the incident below.

The violent incident surprised some who knew Peters. Neighbor Lorraine McCartney called Peters a “very lovely, nice man” who “never yelled, never hollered,” according to Newsday.

Peters apparently suffered from bipolar disorder but had been “in remission” according to his brother-in-law, Jeffrey St. Clair, the report says.

“While we are very pained by everything that has unfolded, we are very grateful to the police for their quick response,” Chabad spokesman Rabbi Motti Seligson said in a statement. “We commend the heroic efforts of the individuals who were present and took immediate action, if not for their intervention the outcome could have been, G-d forbid far worse. We continue to pray for the young man who is in stable condition.”

Roseblat is in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.

Photo: YouTube/Menahem Ladayov

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