New video shows NYPD cops fatally shoot knife-wielding husband who allegedly stabbed wife as he charged at them
New bodycam footage shows cops shoot and kill a knife-wielding man as he charged at them in a Queens hallway minutes after he allegedly stabbed his wife during a family party in March.
The video, released by the NYPD Monday, shows Djamshed Nematov with a large knife raised in his right hand as he moved toward two police officers and one sergeant just moments after they arrived on the second floor of a Forest Hills apartment building on March 8.
Officers can be heard yelling at Nematov to drop the 12-inch knife before they quickly unleashed multiple rounds toward the 46-year-old suspect, footage from three different bodycams showed.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa, put it down,” one of the officers can be heard saying leading up to the deafening gunfire.
Nematov quickly crumpled to the ground as a woman could be heard screaming in horror. He later died at the hospital.
Officers Kimberly O’Rourke fired one shot and Michael Taveras fired three shots during the heart-pounding encounter, police said.
Sgt. Raymond Decostanzo also deployed a Taser during the incident, footage shows.
Police reached the scene after receiving reports that Nematov stabbed his wife, 43, in her stomach in front of other partygoers, including children, loved ones previously told The Post.
The wife, Amira Nematov, survived the knifing.
The wife’s brother said in an interview in March the couple had a solid relationship, but it recently began to crumble.
“Things have been great for them up until the last month,” he said. “That’s when they started to have husband-and-wife issues.”
Another relative said Nematov, who was a father of four, was having mental health problems around the time he was shot.
“He was having hallucinations. It may have been depression. Mental health. … Something was going on in his head,” the relative said.
NYPD spokesperson Carlos Nieves said in a video message that accompanied the bodycam footage that the department’s force investigation division is continuing its probe of the fatal shooting.
The New York State Attorney General’s Office also opened a probe into the case after the shooting in accordance with state law.
