A Queens Village man who was shot by police Sunday afternoon has been charged with arson after lighting his car on fire and charging officers with a knife outside the Bayside police station, police said.
Jarrell Davis, 33, was arrested at 2 a.m. Monday morning just hours after he was taken to New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital with gunshot wounds in his torso and leg. He had been shot by cops around 3 p.m. outside NYPD's 111th Precinct police station on 215th Street after running at officers with a 12-inch kitchen knife.
Just moments before, Davis had lit his own car on fire after crashing it into one of the marked police SUVs outside the station. He had sprayed an accelerant on his own car and marked police cruisers before setting the blaze, Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison said in a press conference later that afternoon.