NEW YORK (AP) -- A man suspected of breaking into a Manhattan building was shot to death with his own gun Sunday in a struggle with two police officers, police said.
None of the officers Sunday discharged their weapons during the 3:40 a.m. confrontation in a mechanical room at the top of the 13-story building, New York Police Department Assistant Chief Michael Collins said.
The suspect, who hadn't been identified by Sunday afternoon, was carrying a 9 mm gun wrapped inside a knotted men's nylon sock, Collins said.
An NYPD lieutenant, a sergeant and an officer responded to the burglary call at the commercial building in midtown Manhattan, which has a spa, a towing establishment and a dentist's office.
The officers found the suspect on the roof, along with tools like rope and a hacksaw in two bags near a chair, leather gloves, a shirt and a sweat shirt, police said. Three laptops, which police believed were stolen, were also found on the roof.
The officers ordered the suspect to stop, but he fled through a window from the roof into a mechanical room connected to the building's elevators, police said.
The lieutenant found the man hiding in the room; he and the sergeant began struggling with the suspect, when his gun went off, Collins said. The suspect died of one gunshot wound to the head, Collins said.
The suspect was wearing two latex gloves on his right hand and two pairs of pants, Collins said.
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