Cops shot and killed a knife-wielding man who tried to stab his lover Friday amid a long-running feud over a gender transition, police and a family member said.
Two officers fired five rounds at 32-year-old Joshua Williams, hitting him in the torso inside the apartment he shared with his husband Worth Williams.
A relative said the couple was fighting in recent months because Joshua Williams was undergoing hormone therapy to transition into a woman. Worth Williams, the relative said, was against the transition.
On Friday morning Worth Williams called police to say Joshua had attacked him with a knife.
When police arrived, they found Joshua Williams hiding in a closet. Cops did not handcuff him as they escorted him from the apartment.
Worth Williams told cops he had an order of protection against his husband — but the officers didn’t handcuff Joshua because they didn’t know if the order of protection was valid, Monahan explained.
“Suddenly, the individual broke away from the officers, grabbed a large knife from the kitchen area, and ran toward the 911 caller [Worth Williams],” Monahan said.
Knife in hand, Joshua Williams “immediately goes toward the domestic partner and begins stabbing … At that point the officers discharged their weapons.”
“They are painting my son as a real bad villain,” said Joshua’s father, Bronx resident Herbert Rembert.
“He had his issues,” Rembert said of his son, acknowledging that he suffered from mental illness. “But Joshua doesn’t have a violent streak in his body,” Rembert said. “I don’t know what happened, but I guarantee it was provoked.”
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