New York City police officers shot and killed a man on Wednesday morning, three days after investigators said he killed a father and son inside a Brooklyn apartment building during an argument over noise.

The police had been searching for the man, Jason Pass, 47, for more than two days after the shooting deaths of the two men. The father was Bladimy Mathurin, 47, and the police named the son as Mode Chinwai, 27. Before the shooting, the city had received about half a dozen calls from Mr. Pass’s apartment complaining about noises above.

When the police arrived at 11:39 p.m. on Sunday, they found Mr. Mathurin and his son lying in the hallway of the fourth floor of the apartment on Brooklyn Avenue with gunshot wounds to the head and torso. They were pronounced dead at the scene, the police said.

“It was a particularly vicious double shooting,” said Jeffrey Maddrey, the chief of the New York Police Department, during a news conference on Wednesday.
Early Wednesday morning, police officers used license plate readers to track Mr. Pass’s vehicle. They found the black car at about 7 a.m. parked near Bay 44 Street and Bath Avenue close to Gravesend, a largely working class neighborhood.
When they approached, the driver, later identified as Mr. Pass, ran out holding a six-inch knife, the police said.

Officers chased him to 187 Bay 44th Street, where they stopped him and “contained him,” said John Chell, the department’s chief of patrol, at a separate news conference.

The officers talked to Mr. Pass for about 15 minutes “doing everything they could” to persuade him to drop the knife, Chief Chell said.

Mr. Pass told the officers that what was happening was “not going to end well,” Chief Chell said. Then, he sprinted at the officers, pointing the knife at them.

“Our officers were forced to defend themselves,” Chief Chell said. “He didn’t give us a choice.”

Mr. Pass was struck three times in the chest and once in the leg, the police said. Mr. Pass died of his injuries at Lincoln Hospital.

The police said that they were still investigating how many officers were involved and whether more than one officer struck Mr. Pass. The police did not immediately provide body camera footage of the episode and said the investigation continued.

At Mr. Pass’s apartment, a woman declined to comment or open the door, calling the situation a “tragedy.”
Late Wednesday morning, crime scene tape cut off three blocks in Gravesend. Over 20 yellow evidence markers dotted the street, showing where shell casings and evidence had been recovered.

Police officers were standing around a black Honda S.U.V. whose driver-seat door was still flung open.

Neighbors said that children had been crossing the street to get to school and commuters were heading to work when they saw the police talking to Mr. Pass before shots rang out.

Vanessa Del Carmin, 27, said she was in her kitchen getting her 5-year-old son ready for school when she heard gunfire.
“It’s a quiet neighborhood, no shootings since I’ve been here. I think that’s why everyone was surprised,” said Ms. Del Carmin, a former Marine who has lived in the neighborhood for more than three years.

At the scene of the Sunday shooting, there were bullet holes in the doors along a hallway.

Dhelma Waters, 73, a neighbor, said her husband was leaving for work Sunday night when the shooting took place. She said she saw blood in the hallway and that the ordeal was “traumatizing.”

A single bullet had gone through her front door and was lodged in a blue plastic barrel drum of evaporated milk she had planned to send to family in Jamaica.

“I’m very nervous. I sleep in the chair right behind it,” Ms. Waters said. “If we hadn’t been packing a barrel to send home, I would have been shot.”