Cops fatally shoot Brooklyn man suspected of opening fire at, killing neighbors — a dad, stepson — after noise complaint



Police early Wednesday fatally shot a Brooklyn man suspected of opening fire at and killing his apartment neighbors — a dad and stepson — over the weekend after the suspect complained about noise.

What are the details?

New York City police pulled over a vehicle Jason Pass, 47, was driving on Bay 44th St. in Brooklyn, when Pass exited the vehicle with a knife and began to run away, police told WNBC-TV.

After a pursuit and confrontation with Pass — as well as a negotiation — police told the station the suspect charged at officers with the knife, and then police opened fire.

"He didn't give us a choice," NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell told WNBC. "He decided to charge at officers, forcing them to protect themselves."

Image source: WNBC-TV video screenshot

Police said Pass was shot four times — three times in the chest and once in his right leg — and was still alive when he was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, where he later died, the station reported.

Multiple officers also went to the hospital for treatment of ringing in their ears after the shooting, WNBC said.

A license-plate reader identified the vehicle Pass was driving, leading to the traffic stop, police added to the station.

Police officials said they are investigating a working theory that Pass is a former corrections officer.

Suspect was former state corrections officer

Gothamist said the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed that Pass was a corrections officer at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining from September 2004 until his termination in June 2005.

Citing a 2005 New York Daily News story, Gothamist said Pass was arrested while off duty after allegedly pointing a pistol and shouting expletives at two plainclothes police officers and honking at and tailgating them in their unmarked car. Pass was charged with menacing and reckless endangerment, Gothamist said.

Prisons spokesperson Thomas Mailey told Gothamist he couldn't confirm a reason for Pass' firing because relevant employee records were destroyed after a required seveb-year retention period.

What led up to the fatal shootings?

The New York Post reported that it obtained video — which has no sound — showing a man dressed in dark clothing and standing at the end of a stairwell landing and hallway on the fourth floor of an apartment complex at 1418 Brooklyn Ave. in East Flatbush.

The man in dark clothing — whom police identified as Pass — is seen on the clip speaking to a woman in the hallway, the paper said, adding that the woman's son — identified as 27-year-old Chinwai Mode — joins her in the hallway.

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Soon the clip shows Mode’s stepfather — 47-year-old Bladimy Mathurin — walking out of an apartment on the far side of the hallway and landing, the Post reported.

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Mathurin — who's holding a pair of scissors in his right hand — walks up to the neighbor and holds the sharp end of the scissors just inches from the neighbor's face as the pair argue.

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The paper said the clip soon shows the woman — whom the paper identified as Mathurin's wife — trying to drag away Mathurin, whom the paper identified as a bus driver and bodybuilder.

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After Mathurin and his wife appear to argue, the Post said the neighbor pulls out a gun and points it at Mathurin.

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The paper said Mathurin sees the gun but waves it off before turning away from the neighbor and appearing to walk back to the apartment at the far end of the hallway.

The Post said the neighbor opens fire and shoots Mathurin, who falls to the floor.

The below video doesn't show the shots being fired or what happens afterward:

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The paper said Mode tried to get away, but the neighbor fired multiple shots at him, including at least two after he had collapsed next to the stairwell.

The neighbor then returned to Mathurin, who was struggling to get up, the Post said, adding that the neighbor shot Mathurin "execution-style" in the doorway of Mathurin's apartment.

The gunman then got on an elevator and fled, the paper said.

Paramedics called to the scene found Mathurin and Mode dead from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso, police told the Post.

Mathurin’s wife, Marie Delille, said her family has been in a yearslong dispute with the neighbor about noise, the Post said.

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Gun-toting Texas Dad shoots at peeping Tom outside his daughter's bedroom window, says culprit lunged at him with knife



A Texas father said he shot at a peeping Tom outside his daughter's bedroom window after the culprit lunged at him with a knife, KENS-TV reported.

What are the details?

San Antonio police told the station the man's daughter caught someone staring at her through her bedroom window around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, and she immediately left her room and told her dad.

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The father ventured outside and caught the man near his daughter's window, and he told police the man pulled out a knife and lunged at him, KENS reported.

With that, the father said he pulled out a gun and shot several times toward the suspect, the station said.

Police told KENS they didn't find anyone with gunshot wounds. A police helicopter searched the area as well and couldn't locate anyone, the station said. The incident occurred in the 6800 block of Seco Creek near Loop 1604 on the far northwest side of town, KENS said.

Police added to the station that suspect is described as being in his 30s with a beard.

The father is not expected to face any charges, police told KENS.

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Another peeping Tom incident

In June 2021, a Texas father and mother allegedly caught a man fondling himself while looking at their young daughter through her bedroom window. The child spotted the man, screamed, and her armed parents ran into her bedroom and then into the front yard to confront the suspect.

The suspect fled across the street to a Valero gas station, and while the mom held the suspect at gunpoint, the dad asked the attendant to call police. But the suspect wrestled with the mom, took her gun, and pointed it at her — after which the dad shot the suspect three times.

According to the Harris County Sheriff's office, the suspect was taken to a hospital in critical but stable condition.

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Dad confronts violent thug for stealing his 13-year-old daughter's Canadian flag amid Ottawa protests. Culprit ends up whimpering as cops handcuff him.



A dad recorded video of his confrontation with a violent man who stole a Canadian flag from his 13-year-old daughter amid continuing protests in Ottawa over the weekend.

What are the details?

According to a video from Peter van Oordt — the father of the girl in question — he, his wife, and his two children were visiting Ottawa as the protests against COVID-19 restrictions were in full swing.

He said in the clip that the man walked up behind his family while they were near city hall and snatched the flag and flagpole from his daughter and ran off hollering obscenities at them.

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But van Oordt pursued the man, hit record on his phone, and captured everything that happened next — including a tense scene as another individual began pulling the flag pole from the thief, after which the crook got the upper hand and shoved him away after yelling, "Get out of my f***ing city!"

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But van Oordt continued to pursue the flag thief and captured video of their on-foot chat: "Why did you steal the flag from my 13-year-old daughter?"

At one point the flag thief takes a swipe at van Oordt and steals his gloves — after apparently trying to grab his phone — and stomps on van Oordt's gloves in a slush-filled gutter.

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Seconds later the flag thief comes at van Oordt, and video doesn't capture exactly what happened, as the camera was jostled around — but the crook ends up on his back atop a snowbank, moaning in pain.

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Van Oordt said in his video that "I believe in peace" and that he "didn't engage with him physically" even when the flag thief went directly after him.

Eventually cops arrive after a bystander calls authorities. Van Oordt tells officers he believes the man had been drinking. Another bystander tells van Oordt he saw the whole thing and would be a witness if he needed one; another man tells police the flag thief earlier assaulted an Uber driver.

Soon cops arrest the whimpering man, who claims his ankle is broken — and admits to officers that "I took somebody's flag, that's it."

Here's the video explanation from van Oordt showing his confrontation with the flag thief as well as his commentary on it.

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Anything else?

Van Oordt said in a previous video that after refusing to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19, he was fired from his part-time position as a firefighter in his township — and then banned from going on campus at the University of Waterloo, where he's a full-time theology graduate student.

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Teammates of transgender female swimmer know 'they will never, ever be able to beat' Lia Thomas, father of another UPenn women's swim team member says



The father of a University of Pennsylvania women's swim team member said his daughter and other biological female teammates "realize that they will never, ever be able to beat" Lia Thomas — a biological male who's transitioning to female and recently has been breaking records as part of the UPenn women's team, Fox News reported.

What are the details?

Thomas "is most likely going to be representing you and I and all other Americans at the Olympics," the father, who has a medical background, said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

The father spoke on the condition of anonymity over fear his views could bring "actual physical harm" to his daughter and family, the cable network said. He added to Fox News that others are staying mum as they believe "there's nothing they can do about it. They are stuck."

"Part of the reason these little girls get so excited about this is because they see themselves possibly being [at the Olympics]," he told the cable network. "There's a shot that they can do it if they swim hard enough, if they work hard enough, they got it, they can do it. Anybody can do it."

He wondered to Fox News, "But now what do you say to your daughter? You got Lia up on the blocks, taking a spot from a cisgender woman on the Olympic team. How do I tell my daughter that could be you one day? You can’t. You can never be her."

The cable network said he added that, "Yes, your daughter can still participate in athletics and reap a lot of the benefits of athletics, but she'll never be on the podium."

What else?

Thomas has been receiving testosterone suppressors for nearly three years and competed on the UPenn men’s team before switching to the women's team in 2020, Fox News said.

The transgender female swimmer is slated to compete at next month's Ivy League championships and has qualified for the NCAA Division I championships in March, the cable network said. What's more, Thomas has turned in better times this season than several collegiate swimmers who competed in last summer’s Olympics and swam the nation’s best times in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle last month, Fox News said, citing the New York Times.

The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America called on the NCAA Competition Oversight Committee to temporarily expand this year’s participation limit by one spot so Thomas "and the other cisgender women athletes who have earned the right to compete" can do so, the cable network reported.

'My daughter hates it'

The father who spoke to Fox News said Thomas’ cisgender teammates are "very upset" about the turn of events.

"My daughter hates it. She doesn’t think it’s fair," he told the cable network, adding that while his daughter hasn’t lost opportunities to Thomas, "other girls have and will, because the coach is going to take" the swimmers with the fastest times.

The dad added to Fox News that his words aren't about transphobia or bullying — just fairness to women.

"All the swimmers like Lia, she’s a wonderful person and very nice," he noted to the cable network, adding that Thomas has been "nothing but polite" and is "not doing anything against the rules."

Collegiate records may fall

However, the father also revealed to Fox News that there are fears that Thomas will beat records held by Olympians Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin during the NCAA championships, which are slated for March 16-19 in Atlanta.

"Lia is going to go to the NCAA’s, and she’s going to take down Katie Ledecky’s record, she’s going to take down Missy Franklin’s record, and it’s not because she is an exceptional woman," he added to the cable network. "It's not because she is the pinnacle of female athletics, which Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin are."

Anything else?

A report this week indicated that some of Thomas' teammates are uncomfortable with the transgender female in the same locker room. "It's definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women," a member of the swim team said, adding that although Thomas sometimes wears a towel, there's still a fair amount of nakedness, and team members have seen Thomas's private parts.

Earlier this month a female UPenn swimmer claimed Thomas arranged to lose a recent race to a Yale biological female — who is transitioning to male but hasn't taken hormones yet — to prove men aren't always stronger than women.

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'I took the fight to them': Dad battles leftist school board, gets banned from daughters' HS graduation — but there may be hope



Shawn McBreairty — a father of twin daughters who are seniors in a Maine high school — told Fox News' Tucker Carlson that after a yearlong battle against the leftist agenda of the school board and district superintendent, he's still not sure if he's allowed to attend his daughters' graduation ceremony after being banned recently.

What are the details?

McBreairty on Thursday told Carlson it all started last June after he said he received a "white supremacist letter" from the district on the heels of George Floyd's death and the riots across America that followed.

"When I read that, I felt assaulted," he told Carlson. "This wasn't how I grew up. It wasn't how I taught the girls. And frankly, I didn't want the school teaching this kind of information to my kids."

The added that he "pushed back" to Jeff Porter, superintendent of Cumberland and North Yarmouth, and told him "very politely, look, as Minneapolis is burning to the ground, you could have talked about the First Amendment and peaceful protest."

But McBreairty said Porter "missed all of that. And he kind of said, sorry, you took it that way. He then doubled down on that a couple of days later with a you're-not-woke-enough-to-understand-what-I'm-talking-about letter" which the dad said "basically divided the entire community just like our nation is right now."

'I took the fight to them'

With that, McBreairty said he started to do battle.

"So I went to the school board meetings," he told Carlson. "I asked them to make some changes on some things that I had found, and they basically said no. And from there, they tried to cancel me. And once that occurred, I took the fight to them. I really held them accountable to their public comment policy. I used my First Amendment rights and really tried to push the envelope to help them understand that as a parent, I just didn't want that in my community that I've lived in for over 20 years."

Soon McBreairty said he specifically called out one of the school board members — Ann Maksymowicz, whom he described as "one of the more radical folks" on the board.

"I took a picture of her when she was not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance to honor our troops," he recalled. "And before I left the room, I put that on ... social media. And half the town lost their mind; they couldn't believe that I took a picture of a government official, elected official, and then sent that out to the world."

McBreairty added to Carlson that he created a "small political sign of Ann" that he "brought that to a meeting which Jeff Porter kicked me out of, and then I put that sign right beside the road where I live on across the street, illuminated 24 hours a day. And frankly, the leftists lost their mind, Tucker."

But McBreairty said whatever abuse he got, he "just kept counterpunching. They would punch, and I would punch back, and I'd push back harder. And we just kind of work through it."

A sign leads to trouble

According to the Daily Wire, McBreairty was served with a "prohibitive conduct warning" banning him from being on school property for "illegally" hanging a sign of featuring Maksymowicz on a middle school fence.

And while the Daily Wire said Porter has lifted the ban as long as Dad meets certain conditions, McBreiarty told Carlson he's not sure what it all means.

"I pushed back a couple of times on that because, frankly, I don't think there should be conditions set to me going to graduation," he said. "I don't know if he wants me to stand on one leg and rub my belly the whole time. I have no idea what these conditions are."

Porter told the Daily Wire that "as a superintendent, I have good reason not to let him attend this event. However, as a parent I believe that granting this request is important and have chosen to use this lens in making this exception."

The outlet said Porter will provide expectations to McBreiarty before the June 6 ceremony.