This amateur video footage shows the moments
leading up to when a New York police officer
fatally shot a man armed with a knife.
The dramatic scenes came after the man stabbed
a Jewish student in a Brooklyn synagogue on
Tuesday.
Police quickly stepped in as Calvin Peters,
aged 49, who has a history of mental illness,
stabbed and wounded 22-year-old Levi Rosenblat.
Police can be seen confronting the suspect
who can be seen waving the knife around threatening
other worshipers.
The officers can then be heard shouting at
him, ordering him to drop the knife.
Police said the officer shot once, hitting
Peters in the torso. He was taken to a hospital
where he was pronounced dead.
Rosenblat was stabbed in the left temple and
is in a stable condition at the hospital.
