A patrol car heading to the scene of a 911 call about a domestic assault in progress fatally struck a man in Long Island City, Queens, around 12:45 a.m. Thursday, the police said.
The officers were driving east on 40th Avenue toward a building in the Queensbridge public housing complex where a 911 call had reported a domestic dispute with a knife, a police spokesman said. Their car hit a man crossing 40th Avenue, mid-block between 10th and 11th Streets, the police said.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene; his name has not yet been released, nor have the names of the two officers in the patrol car. The spokesman also did not disclose whether they were injured. Another spokesman said their emergency lights had been activated, but he did not know if their siren was on.
The crash remains under investigation.
The emergency call on the domestic assault was eventually answered by officers from another sector who did not find any assault with a knife in progress, the first spokesmansaid. “They marked the job ‘unfounded,’†he said.
