Police Shoot Man With Long Arrest History

A Brooklyn man has been hospitalized after being shot while fleeing police.

Police say Ahmad Evans, 34, ran away Monday night when officers responded to a 911 call from a 36-year-old woman in Bedford-Stuyvesant who holds a court order against him that he had violated in the past. The caller told police that Evans was in the vicinity of her house and reaching into a backpack that she thought might contain a weapon. When two officers arrived in a patrol car, they took the woman and her 17-year-old son for a drive around the area to locate Evans.

Once they found him, police say he shouted, "I'm not going for this," and ran down the street and around the corner, where he ducked behind a car. The two officers got out of the car and pursued him on foot and told him not to move. When Evans began to get up, one of the officers saw his hands moving toward his waist, prompting the other officer to fire a single shot into the man's shoulder, police said. Evans was later found to be unarmed. He was taken to Kings County Hospital and is in stable condition.

Evans has 17 prior arrests, police officials said yesterday, including an assault last November on the woman who placed the 911 call yesterday and three arrests this year for violating orders of protection against her. Police say he was released into a treatment program after a stay at Rikers Island Correction Facility, but disappeared from the program last month.