PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — A Brooklyn man shot and wounded by police on Sunday now faces multiple criminal charges stemming from the altercation, the NYPD said.
Paul Mathurin, 31, was arrested Monday and charged with reckless endangerment, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and possession of a controlled substance, police said.
Mathurin, who witnesses said fired a gun into the air multiple times at the corner of Rogers and Lefferts avenue early Sunday morning, was shot in the hip by officers responding to the gunshots.
He was hospitalized soon after the shooting, police said.
The Lefferts Avenue resident remains in Kings County Hospital as of Tuesday and has not yet been arraigned on the charges, prosecutors said.
Police fired 12 shots during the incident and recovered Mathurin’s weapon, a 9mm Taurus handgun.
The arrest came on the same day officers in Gravesend, Brooklyn shot and killed an armed man burglarizing a home who had pointed a handgun at police, the NYPD said.
Also on Monday, the department released crime statistics indicating murders and shootings are both down citywide in the first half of 2016.
