Two New York City police officers used excessive force and committed other acts of misconduct when they fatally shot a 19-year-old man who had called 911 seeking help, a police oversight panel found this week.
The officers shot the man, Win Rozario, several times in his Queens home in March 2024 as his mother and brother begged them not to, according to footage from the officers’ body-worn cameras.
The Police Department said at the time that the officers, Matthew Cianfrocco and Salvatore Alongi, felt they had to shoot Mr. Rozario after he lunged at them with a pair of scissors.
But the oversight panel, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, voted this week to substantiate claims that the officers had used excessive force and had abused their authority during the encounter, a spokesman for the board, Dakota Gardner, said on Friday.
Mr. Rozario’s mother, Notan Eva Costa, said in a statement that the vote had given her family “some relief” and showed that the board understood “that Win’s life mattered and that Alongi and Cianfrocco are dangerous.”
“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t miss my son,” Ms. Costa said. “My heart is still broken.”
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