An off-duty police officer fatally shot a man who was holding an imitation firearm, New York City police said at a press conference just after midnight Saturday.It happened Friday night on William Avenue near Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island's Great Kills neighborhood.

A man was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in the Great Kills section of Staten Island on Friday night after he allegedly pointed an imitation firearm at two officers, according to NYPD.

A man was shot multiple times by an off-duty NYPD officer near a Staten Island diner, according to police. Just after 8 p.m. Friday, a man believed to have a gun was said to be behind Andrew’s Diner on Hylan Boulevard near William Avenue in Great Kills,