BREAKING NEWS: On-the-run Brooklyn gunman who executed his neighbor and the man’s stepson in cold blood is shot by cops during early morning standoff
A Brooklyn man suspected of killing his neighbors over a noise complaint was shot by police after a standoff, officials said.
Bladimy Mathurin, 47, and his stepson Chinwai Mode, 27, were shot on Sunday after reporting noise pollution to a neighbor with whom they had been at war for four years.
Their neighbor and suspected shooter Jason Pass, 47, fled after the shooting.
He was shot by police Wednesday morning after a standoff and taken to the hospital; his condition is unknown.
Police said Pass barricaded himself in a Bath Beach home when the NYPD and U.S. Marshals tried to arrest him.
Jason Pass, 47, was shot by New York City police Wednesday morning. He had been on the run since shooting his two neighbors dead on Sunday over a noise complaint
The shooting took place on the fourth floor of a well-known East Flatbush housing complex where Barbra Streisand and the late The Wire star Michael K. Williams grew up.
Shocking footage of the shooting begins with a man dressed in black angrily walking down the hallway outside an apartment. As the man walks, a woman in sweatpants and a tank top comes out of an apartment and the situation escalates.
The woman is quickly joined by the man, who is then identified by police as her son Chinwai Mode, 27.
The video contains no audio, so it’s unclear what exactly the neighbors’ back and forth entails.
As the situation seems to escalate, the mother and son are joined by Mathurin, who angrily confronts the neighbor while appearing to wield a pair of scissors.
His wife tries to turn him away from the confrontation, but Mathurin – reportedly an amateur bodybuilder and father of four – pushes her away.
Mathurin was shot by a neighbor after a confrontation over a noise complaint – an issue that had come up many times between the two men who lived in apartments on adjacent floors
Marie Delille said, “My husband had no gun, no weapon. Why did you bring a gun to shoot my family? Why would you bring a gun to tear my family apart? Why? Why? ‘I need justice’
The neighbor then takes a gun from his jacket, which he immediately points at Mathurin.
Despite seemingly acknowledging the gun, he dismisses it and turns to walk back to his door. The neighbor, reportedly Pass, then starts shooting, hitting Mathurin, who immediately falls to the ground.
The stepson, who was in the hallway and saw Mathurin go downstairs, tries to run from the gunman, but is unsuccessful and is shot several times before collapsing motionless in a pool of his own blood near the stairs.
Pass then allegedly turned his attention back to Mathurin, who was struggling to get up at the time. He shoots him execution style right outside his door.
The man, who allegedly slaughtered two people, looks around the bloodied hallway and then calmly waits for the elevator, which he takes down before fleeing the scene.
According to the Post, nine shell casings were recovered at the scene.
On October 28, the neighbor started banging on his ceiling because of the allegedly loud noises coming from Mathurin and Delille’s apartment.
Mathurin responded by banging back, prompting the neighbor to run up the stairs and kick the family’s front door, the grieving widow said.
“This man hates us with every bone in his body,” Delille said.
A woman claiming to be the alleged shooter’s older sister said Mathurin and his family had threatened her mother and brother before the incident.
“What happened on Sunday was self-defense. (They shouted) “We’re going to kill you! We hate you!” on numerous occasions. When we walk out and they come in or they get in their car, those are the things they said to us,” she said.
“They tried to attack my brother or sister,” the nurse said. “My brother didn’t just go up there and kill them. We are not problematic people.’
She claims Pass went upstairs to talk to the family about the noise and didn’t attack first.
The NYPD said Pass had called his upstairs neighbors six times since March 2022 to complain. Delille revealed that this feud had been going on for four years.
CBS also revealed that numerous complaints had been registered with the construction management, but neither side could reach an agreement.
Marie Delille, Bladimy Mathurin’s widow, told CBS that her husband was not armed with a gun at the time of the altercation.
Delille said, “My husband had no gun, no weapon. Why did you bring a gun to shoot my family? Why would you bring a gun to tear my family apart? Why? Why?
“I need justice.”