Video: Cops Shoot At Man 62 Times In Fatal Brooklyn Stand-Off

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Dramatic body camera footage shows the moments police gunned down an armed man, ending a stand-off in Crown Heights.

The half-hour video released Friday by the NYPD shows multiple angles of the two minutes between when cops found Tyquan Graves, 34, with a gun in his hand near the Kingsborough Houses and the moment 10 officers fired 62 gunshots in his direction.

Graves was hit with 12 of the bullets and pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after the shooting.

"Put your hands in the air — you’re going to get shot," one officer can be heard yelling at Graves in the body-camera footage.

“He’s going, bro, look at his hands,” says another. “If he goes up — I’m going.”

Cops yelled at Graves to "drop the gun" and "show [his] hands" for about two minutes and 23 seconds before firing the 62 shots, according to the video.

Police said the officers shot when Graves stood up and began to "raise the firearm."

The stand-off broke out after one of the officers — called to the Kingsborough Houses after police say Graves shot a 49-year-old man in the leg — found Graves behind a tree with the gun in his hand.

"S---, I didn’t even see you," Officer Christian Santos, one of the first on the scene, says to Graves as he walks toward him. "You heard any shots going off just now?"

Graves can be heard in a panicked voice saying "no, no, no, no" as he gets up from his stomach and onto his knees, according to the video, which is narrated by Sgt. Carlos Nieves.

Nieves said Santos noticed a gun in Graves' right hand as he got up.

"Stop, stop, stop, — stop moving," Santos says.

"What do you mean, stop moving?" Graves replies.

Santos repeats "put it down" as other officers nearby can be heard noticing what is going on and beginning to yell to Graves.

"You said, 'Stop moving,' right?'" Graves says.

After the shooting, police found no bullets inside the gun they recovered from Graves' hand, Nieves said.

But, police later recovered seven shell casings from the Kingsborough 2nd Walk which were matched to the semi-automatic firearm.

The man who had been shot in the leg earlier was sent to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to police.

The shooting unfolded as New York City was gripped by another day and evening of protests over the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd and police brutality. Police said the incident was not related to the ongoing protests.

The body camera footage is being reviewed by the NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. Their findings will be presented to the First Deputy Commissioner's Use of Force Review Board, Nieves said.

"The evidence will be evaluated to determine if the use of force applied in this case was justified and within the department's guidelines," he said.