A 34-year-old man holding a large knife to his mother’s neck was shot and critically wounded by an officer inside a Bronx apartment, police said Friday.

A man was shot by police late Thursday night in the Bronx after the NYPD says he threatened his mother with a knife. Police said a security guard called 911 after hearing screams from the family's apartment in on Mulford Avenue in Pelham Bay.

A man holding his mother at knifepoint in a Bronx apartment was shot by an NYPD officer late Thursday night after refusing to drop the kitchen knife, according to police. Police said they were called to an apartment on Mulford Avenue around 11:20 p.