Protests against NYPD subway fare evasion shooting in Brooklyn

NEW YORK – Protests broke out in Brooklyn on Tuesday night as demonstrators demanded justice following a police-involved shooting at the Sutter Avenue subway station in Brownsville over the weekend.

The protest, which began at the train station, continued outside the 73rd precinct.

According to authorities, two police officers noticed a man entering the station without paying around 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Officers followed the man to the elevated subway platform, but he refused to stop and muttered threats toward police, Police Chief Jeffrey Maddrey said at a press conference later Sunday.

Police shot the man several times, but Gregory Delpeche, 49, who was taking the subway to work, was hit in the head by a bullet, as were a 26-year-old woman and one of the police officers.

Both the woman and the injured police officer are expected to recover, but Delpeche remains in critical condition.

“Right now he's breathing through a tube,” Delpeche's cousin Greg Nougues told The Associated Press in a phone call Tuesday as he was on his way to visit him in the hospital, adding that the family was in a “holding pattern.”

Protesters at Tuesday's rally called for greater police transparency and accountability.

Gregory Delpeche's family is expected to address the public at a rally scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning at the Brownsville Recreation Center to call for a thorough investigation into the shooting.