NEW YORK – A hatchet-wielding man attacked a group of patrol officers in a busy commercial district on Thursday, injuring two before the other officers shot and killed him, police said. A bystander was wounded in the gunfire. At a news conference at a hospital where one officer was being treated for a serious head wound, Police Commissioner William Bratton said that investigators were still trying to confirm the identity of the assailant and determine a motive. Asked if the attack could be related to terrorism, Bratton didn’t rule it out. He cited the fatal shooting of a solider...
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