Police officers fire 5 shots at charging assailant carrying serrated knife, metal rod

2026.03.21 01:50 Screengrab of footage of the scene following the incident. Photo: Now TV News Three Hong Kong police officers fired five shots at a man, suspected to be mentally ill, who charged at them with a serrated knife and a metal rod in the early hours of Saturday morning. Senior Superintendent Iu Wing-kan said that police received reports after midnight that a man was carrying weapons and behaving abnormally at Tsuen Wan MTR station and Cheung Wing Road in Kwai Chung. Officers were dispatched to the area, but found no sign of the suspect. The force was alerted by several drivers at around 1am that the man was on the Kwai Chung section of the Castle Peak Road and brandishing a serrated knife and a metal rod. When members of police’s emergency unit arrived at the scene to search for him, the man suddenly jumped out of the bushes and charged at the officers. Officers issued verbal warnings before using pepper spray to try to stop him, which proved ineffective. Three officers then fired five shots at the man to subdue him. Police officers inspect the scene after the shooting. Photo: Now TV News Providing a detailed account of the decision to open fire, Iu said: “The man continued charging at our colleagues with his weapons, yelling ‘I’ll kill you’.” “After warnings were ignored, one of our officers fired two shots at the man in an attempt to stop him.” “After the shooting, the man did not stop his attack and continued to chase our colleagues, intending to harm them with his weapons. “At this point, another officer fired a shot in hopes of subduing him, but it was ineffective. Finally, a third officer fired two shots at him, finally subduing him,” he said. He added that the shooting distance was two to five metres (6.6 to 16.4 feet) and the scene was brightly lit. The man was sent to Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung, and was undergoing surgery. Two bullet holes were found in his right chest and right thigh. The man, a 43-year-old Hong Kong identity card

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