Man Sprawled Out Dead on the Sidewalk After Being Shot by NYPD Transit Cop

**kellyhound** · #1 ● 06-21-2015, 08:47 AM

An NYPD transit cop shot and killed a knife-wielding man who slashed the officer’s neck during a bloody clash in Brooklyn.

Officer Filippo Gugliara, 24, was at the Ocean Parkway station when he saw a white-haired man in a purple shirt fighting with a woman in her 70s at the foot of the stairs.

When Gugliara intervened, the 58-year-old ran off. The cop chased Oleg Tcherniak to Ocean Parkway and Seabreeze Ave. when the suspect turned and slashed at Gugliara with a five-inch Fallkniven hunting knife, cutting the cop’s shoulder and neck.

Gugliara pulled his gun during the scuffle and fired twice, killing the older man. Tcherniak was found sprawled out on the sidewalk face first in a pool of his own blood — the knife a few inches from his hand.

The officer was rushed to a hospital where he was given stitches and is expected to be OK, a doctor said, saying the cut “wasn’t that deep.”

Surgeons credited that to the fact that the knife first hit the officer’s shoulder strap on his vest which deflected the weapon, likely saving his life.