More incidents in the Buffalo Police Department

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• 'We're retreating. He's still coming forward': Buffalo police shoot man on Hertel Avenue
  Less than a week ago, according to Buffalo police, a 31-year-old Hertel Avenue man called police and asked to be taken to Erie County Medical Center for psychiatric treatment. Early Monday morning, he called police again. This time, he told them someone was trying to kill him. A short time later, after unsuccessfully trying to get the man to drop the knife he was holding, two Buffalo police officers shot and wounded him outside his apartment building. - Buffalo News
• Police release names of man shot on Hertel Avenue, officers who shot him
  Buffalo police identified the man shot and wounded by officers Monday morning on Hertel Avenue as Dominique Thomas, 30, of Buffalo. Police officials also released the names of the two officers who fired the shots: Phillip Edwards and Michael Ramos. Edwards has been on the force for seven years and Ramos for two years. - Buffalo News
• Man shot after threatening police officers with knife pleads guilty to felony charge
  Dominique D. Thomas, 32, of Buffalo, who was shot by Buffalo police pleaded guilty to a felony menacing charge before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case. Thomas faces a maximum of seven years in prison when he is sentenced Sept. 18 and continues to be held without bail. Thomas was treated for multiple wounds in Erie County Medical Center. DA Flynn said his office reviewed the incident and determined that the shooting was justified. - Buffalo News