COPS SHOOT & KILL A BRONX MAN BECAUSE HE WOULDN'T STOP BASHING HIS MOTHER'S HEAD IN WITH A FRYING PAN!

Police shot and killed a crazed Bronx man as he bashed his "sweet" mother with a frying pan in their home, police said Monday.

The drama unfolded after a sergeant and officer kicked in the apartment door and found the 32-year-old suspect beating his mother late Sunday night. He refused their order to drop the pan and raised it again, ready to slam the 61-year-old woman again, cops said.

That's when the officers opened fire, authorities said.

The uniformed sergeant from the 40th Precinct fired once and a uniformed officer from the same command fired five times, killing the suspect.

His mother was in critical condition at Lincoln Medical Center and may have suffered brain damage, sources said.

She had major head injuries, including a fractured skill, plus a broken left shin and a compound left arm fracture that bone sticking out of her skin.

The shooting happened at about 11:15 p.m. Sunday in the mother's second-floor apartment at 3055 Third Ave.

It was not clear what sparked the violence, but a high-ranking police official said the suspect "has a history of psychiatric issues" and neighbors say he is menacing, with a big build and dour disposition.

Another son, who was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident two years ago and lives in a long-term care facility on Roosevelt Island, called his mother, as always, at 7 p.m.

But when he made his later customary call, at 10 p.m., she did not answer, sources said.

After about an hour, the panicked son called 911 and police responded.

"We go to the door and we hear noise, but no one is answering the door," a source said. "It doesn't sound right, so the officers get the super."
Donovan Howell, the superintendent, said the suspect yelled "Go away! Go away!" when police got to the door.

When Howell opened the door with his key, the chain was on, but "we saw him standing over his mother, hitting her," Howell said.

"The officers had to kick the door open," Howell added. "When it opened, we saw him standing over his mother, hitting her. The officers told him multiple times to drop what he was holding but he didn't. That's when he started coming up to the officers."

A source said, "He's going to hit her again and that's when he's shot."
Howell saw the mother "laying on the floor in a pool of blood all over," but did not see the shooting.

"I moved away from the door and that's when I heard the shots," he said, "I ran away because I didn't want to be near there with the gunshots."
Howell said the son lived with the mother.

Jenette Santiago, 34, a third-floor neighbor, said the suspect scared her, once flipping out on the street and punching himself in the chest.

"He's big," she said. "He's wide. He doesn't smile. He doesn't talk."

The mother, she said, is "a very good woman" who dotes on her injured son and husband, who is also in a wheelchair.

"She's so sweet," Santiago added. "You wouldn't believe how much people in the building love her."