Cops fatally shoot Brooklyn man suspected of opening fire at, killing neighbors — a dad, stepson — after noise complaint

Police early Wednesday fatally shot a Brooklyn man suspected of opening fire at and killing his apartment neighbors — a dad and stepson — over the weekend after the suspect complained about noise.

What are the details?

New York City police pulled over a vehicle Jason Pass, 47, was driving on Bay 44th St. in Brooklyn, when Pass exited the vehicle with a knife and began to run away, police told WNBC-TV.

After a pursuit and confrontation with Pass — as well as a negotiation — police told the station the suspect charged at officers with the knife, and then police opened fire.

"He didn't give us a choice," NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell told WNBC. "He decided to charge at officers, forcing them to protect themselves."

Image source: WNBC-TV video screenshot

Police said Pass was shot four times — three times in the chest and once in his right leg — and was still alive when he was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, where he later died, the station reported.

Multiple officers also went to the hospital for treatment of ringing in their ears after the shooting, WNBC said.

A license-plate reader identified the vehicle Pass was driving, leading to the traffic stop, police added to the station.

Police officials said they are investigating a working theory that Pass is a former corrections officer.

Suspect was former state corrections officer

Gothamist said the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed that Pass was a corrections officer at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining from September 2004 until his termination in June 2005.

Citing a 2005 New York Daily News story, Gothamist said Pass was arrested while off duty after allegedly pointing a pistol and shouting expletives at two plainclothes police officers and honking at and tailgating them in their unmarked car. Pass was charged with menacing and reckless endangerment, Gothamist said.

Prisons spokesperson Thomas Mailey told Gothamist he couldn't confirm a reason for Pass' firing because relevant employee records were destroyed after a required seveb-year retention period.

What led up to the fatal shootings?

The New York Post reported that it obtained video — which has no sound — showing a man dressed in dark clothing and standing at the end of a stairwell landing and hallway on the fourth floor of an apartment complex at 1418 Brooklyn Ave. in East Flatbush.

The man in dark clothing — whom police identified as Pass — is seen on the clip speaking to a woman in the hallway, the paper said, adding that the woman's son — identified as 27-year-old Chinwai Mode — joins her in the hallway.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

Soon the clip shows Mode’s stepfather — 47-year-old Bladimy Mathurin — walking out of an apartment on the far side of the hallway and landing, the Post reported.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

Mathurin — who's holding a pair of scissors in his right hand — walks up to the neighbor and holds the sharp end of the scissors just inches from the neighbor's face as the pair argue.

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The paper said the clip soon shows the woman — whom the paper identified as Mathurin's wife — trying to drag away Mathurin, whom the paper identified as a bus driver and bodybuilder.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

After Mathurin and his wife appear to argue, the Post said the neighbor pulls out a gun and points it at Mathurin.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

The paper said Mathurin sees the gun but waves it off before turning away from the neighbor and appearing to walk back to the apartment at the far end of the hallway.

The Post said the neighbor opens fire and shoots Mathurin, who falls to the floor.

The below video doesn't show the shots being fired or what happens afterward:

Shocking moment neighbor executes NYC dad and stepson during argument over noiseyoutu.be

The paper said Mode tried to get away, but the neighbor fired multiple shots at him, including at least two after he had collapsed next to the stairwell.

The neighbor then returned to Mathurin, who was struggling to get up, the Post said, adding that the neighbor shot Mathurin "execution-style" in the doorway of Mathurin's apartment.

The gunman then got on an elevator and fled, the paper said.

Paramedics called to the scene found Mathurin and Mode dead from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso, police told the Post.

Mathurin’s wife, Marie Delille, said her family has been in a yearslong dispute with the neighbor about noise, the Post said.

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