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/StoneyBrook professor accuses stabbed officers of murdering knife-wielding attacker
The incident occurred on Dec. 28 when Suffolk County officers responded to a report that the suspect was armed with a fire extinguisher and threatening his roommate, according to a report.
When the officers arrived on the scene, the suspect attacked them with a knife, leaving two officers with serious stab wounds, the report noted, and one of the officers suffered life-threatening neck wounds.
Surviving the attack, at least one of the officers used his firearm to fatally shoot the suspect, leading to Stony Brook professor Anna Hayward calling the officers murderers.
"This was a wellness check — why didn’t they de-escalate the situation?" she said in a now-deleted comment on a Stony Brook Medicine Instagram update about the officers, the report noted.
“Why did a man have to die? What about the man they murdered?” Hayward added.