NYPD cops shoot, kill armed suspect who fired at plainclothes officer

Police shot and killed a man in the Bronx on Friday night after he fired a shot at a plainclothes detective with an airsoft pistol, authorities said.

The shooting unfolded after a narcotics detective, conducting an unrelated investigation with other cops near Seneca Avenue and Hunts Point Avenue, overheard a man among a group of people arguing say he was going to retrieve a gun from his truck at about 7 p.m., police said.

The detective notified other investigators near the scene and police later spotted the 51-year-old man exiting the vehicle with the pistol.

As the suspect was walking on the sidewalk, he was confronted by

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