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I just want to get clear, sahim was not a homeless young man and he was not a violent young man and i just want to say i want justice for sahim. >> the mother of saheed vassell made that empassioned plea. the brooklyn man, the father of a teenage son was shot ten times, shot at ten times by new york police officers who claim he pointed an object they believed to be a gun in his direction. that object turned out not to being a gun. instead, of it a metal pipe. they say their son dealt with mental health issues. the shooting has sparked outrage. they say he was a familiar face and that many knew...

They said two officers from the strategic response group and three officers from the nypd anticrime unit. last bit, they're a team that responds to things such as shootings and bank robberies and they handle crowd control while anti-crime officers frequently deal with gun violence. three plain clothed officers and one uniformed officer shot at vassell. they have not released the name of the officers. they didn't send the guys who know the neighborhood, they sent the crime guys into a residential neighborhood and they shoot him. >> 41 shots and having gun cops show up in a neighborhood they don...

Injuries were not life-threatening. this was a huge headache here on i-20 today. at one point, all lanes were blocked. tom? >> steve osunsami for us. steve, thank you. now to the deadly police shooting here in new york city. police responding to 911 calls of a man with a gun, opening fire when they mistook the metal pipe he was holding for a weapon. police releasing surveillance images showing him gripping the pipe as if it were a gun, pointing it at officers with both hands. the state's attorney general now investigating. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: this is the image of the shoo...

911 calls. but i also want you to hear sort of the dispatch versus the police. what the communications they were hearing as they were arriving to this scene yesterday. take a listen. >> description here for a -- wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans and black and white sneakers with black hat. empire boulevard, caller states a male was pointing a gun at people. caller have a description for a male black with a brown jacket, blue jeans, black and white sneaker, black hat. >> so, again, that's the information that police were hearing as they were arriving to the scene in brooklyn around 5:00 p.m. y...