A mentally ill man killed in a 1999 police shooting in a Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn was not rushing at police officers when they shot him, a medical expert said. The medical examiner, Dr. Charles Wetli, said Gidon Busch, who had a history of mental illness, was not charging at officers with a hammer when they shot him 13 times, according to the New York Daily News.
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