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November 13, 2007
Man, 18, Is Fatally Shot by Police in Brooklyn
By
BRUCE LAMBERT and
ANAHAD O’CONNOR
A young man was fatally shot last night in a hail of 20 bullets fired by five police officers who responded to his mother’s 911 call for help in a domestic dispute in Brooklyn, the authorities said.
The police said they believed that the man, Khiel Coppin, 18, had a gun. But when the gunfire stopped, it turned out that he had been holding a black hairbrush.
The police were investigating a number of scenarios this morning, including whether the man had held the brush under his shirt to prompt officers to shoot at him, a phenomenon known in law-enforcement circles as “suicide by cop.” But witness accounts varied, with some people at the scene saying they heard the man tell officers he had a gun, and others saying the man was shot as he dropped the brush and attempted to raise his hands in the air in an effort to cooperate.
The shooting began shortly after officers went into the building at 590 Gates Avenue, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, about 7 p.m. The police said they were responding to a 911 call from Mr. Coppin’s mother reporting domestic abuse and asking for help to “deal with this.” On the call, the police said, a man was overheard threatening to kill her, saying “I have a gun.”
One resident of the building, Andre Sanchez, 17, said that after the police arrived, he saw from the hallway through the open door of the apartment that the officers inside were talking to Mr. Coppin, who was in a bedroom and opening and closing that door as they spoke, possibly with a knife in his hand. One law enforcement official said this morning that during the tense standoff, Mr. Coppin lunged at the officers and shouted “shoot me.” A sister of Mr. Coppin was standing nearby at the time, they said, and investigators were seeking to fully debrief her to obtain her account of what happened.
Eventually, the authorities said, Mr. Coppin climbed out a first-floor window and confronted more officers outside the building, and multiple shots were fired at him. Wounded, Mr. Coppin fell to the ground and was handcuffed, witnesses said. He was taken to Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, where he was pronounced dead, the police said.
A law enforcement official said this morning that Mr. Coppin had been hit by 13 bullets, though it was unclear how many wounds those bullets caused. Some may have been exit wounds. The official said that five people had fired at Mr. Coppin: two police officers and a sergeant from the local housing police station, PSA 3, and a sergeant and a detective assigned to the local 79th Precinct.
“Those are the shooters and there are a lot more cops on the scene,” the official said.
Mr. Coppin’s mother, whose name was not released, was among the people outside the building during the shooting. Earlier in the day, she had called a hospital psychiatric unit asking for urgent help in dealing with her son, the law enforcement official said. Psychiatric workers came, but Mr. Coppin was gone. After waiting two hours, the workers left, and later, Mr. Coppin returned.
Two bystanders who said they had seen the shooting said that Mr. Coppin was not armed, but was carrying a hairbrush when he climbed out the window and that he dropped it when the firing began. The two witnesses also said they both heard one officer yelling for the shooting to stop.
According to the police, another witness described Mr. Coppin as concealing the hairbrush under his shirt, pointing it outward.
A restless crowd quickly gathered and grew to as many as 150, as some neighbors shouted protests against police brutality. “You need training — this is absurd!” one woman shouted out a window to the police. Another man pressed against a yellow crime-scene tape and said: “I’m not trying to start a riot. I’m just saying it’s not right.”
The site and surrounding blocks were cordoned off as dozens of police officers, detectives and community affairs officers arrived to investigate the shooting and control the crowd. Community leaders at the scene included City Councilman Albert Vann.
Witnesses and the police offered different details about how the shooting occurred.
Mr. Sanchez said that just before the shooting, he went outside and saw several officers there with guns drawn. Mr. Coppin approached the window, backed away, then returned and stood on the sill, Mr. Sanchez said. When an officer told him to get down, he jumped to the ground and started to go through a gate in the fence in front of the building, Mr. Sanchez said.
An officer told Mr. Coppin to put up his hands, and when he did he dropped the hairbrush and the shooting began, although one officer called out to stop the gunfire, Mr. Sanchez said.
Officers started chasing Mr. Sanchez and knocked him to the ground after, he said, he protested: “Why you got to shoot him like that, for nothing?”
A similar description of the shooting was given by Precious Blood, 16, who said she heard about 10 shots fired, most if not all by one officer. Another officer called out: “Stop, stop, stop shooting — he’s down,” she said, but the shooter kept firing, “like he was playing with a toy.”
The law enforcement official gave a different version of the encounter, saying that Mr. Coppin charged toward the officers and refused repeated orders to stop.
The police said they were also exploring the possibility that Mr. Coppin was trying to prompt a shooting, a phenomenon that a handful of studies in recent years have shown can account for a small fraction of police shootings in some American cities. One study by researchers at Harvard Medical School in 1998, for example, looked at all officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles County in a 10-year-period — about 430 shootings in all — and found that “suicide-by-cop” incidents accounted for 11 percent of the shootings over all and 13 percent of the fatal shootings.
Mr. Coppin’s mother was at the 79th Precinct station house last night and gave a statement to the police, they said.
The officers who fired their guns have not been spoken to by police officials, as is routine in such matters. Under a new policy instituted in September, the five officers were given Breathalyzer sobriety tests immediately after the shooting, and police officials said all five passed that test.
Al Baker and Annie Correal contributed reporting.
and waits for the defenders of the pigs to show up in the thread. 
= Ninja Killers
. and all the others into a jet fuled hell fire.
