Police Officer Stabbed Before Suspect Fatally Shot By Police

Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating an officer-involved shooting during which a man was fatally shot after he stabbed a police officer in Bay Shore this morning.

Third Precinct police officers responded to Udall Road at approximately 9:10 a.m. for a domestic incident. Two officers approached the door and Taiquell Woodson came outside charging at the officers with a knife. One officer fell into the snow and Woodson jumped on top of him and stabbed him multiple times. The second officer attempted to deploy his taser. A third officer fired his service weapon and struck Woodson.

Officers initiated CPR on Woodson, 33, who was transported to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore where he was pronounced dead.

An officer at the scene applied a tourniquet to the officer who was stabbed. He was transported by police vehicle to Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip and subsequently airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital. The other two officers were transported to Stony Brook University Hospital for observation. All three have been treated and released.