A suspect in a Big Apple murder case was shot and killed after a nearly two-hour standoff with police and US Marshals Wednesday, according to reports.
The one hour and 40 minute encounter ended around 8:20 a.m., SWAT team members entered a second-floor apartment and found the unidentified suspect, South Passaic Daily Voice reported.
A SWAT team and other heavily armed law enforcement officers converged on the building at Hamilton Avenue and Straight Street in Paterson, according to a reporter from the Record.
The outlet reported that team was seen stowing their weapons at 8:30 a.m.
The dead man was later identified as Malik Canty, 36, by the New Jersey State Attorney General’s Office, which is conducting an officer-involved investigation into the shooting, the office said in a statement.
Canty was wanted on a New York City warrant for criminally negligent homicide, the statement said.
Mayor Andre Sayegh confirmed that the suspect was wanted on a murder warrant in the Big Apple, according to WNBC.
The NYPD referred questions to Paterson police, which said they had no information to release yet.
It was unclear if the case was related to an earlier shooting in Paterson in which at least four people were killed and three others wounded Tuesday night.
Sayegh said it was possible the killings were retaliation by one or more recently released gang members, according to WNBC.
A message left with the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office was not immediately returned.