They made a big mistake to kill him

  They stopped speaking after the altercation, Cruz said, but she grew worried about his mental state and called him Sunday to discover his phone was disconnected."When I woke up (Sunday) morning, I got the feeling something was wrong," Cruz told The Journal News. "They made a big mistake to kill him and I'm gonna fight this case."New Rochelle City Manager Charles Strome said Samuel Cruz was taken to Jacobi Hospital Medical Center in the Bronx, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.Strome said officers went to the apartment after a call from his estranged wife. Schaller would not comment, but did say that city police had contact with Cruz in the past. He would not provide details."Police tried to talk him out of the apartment," Strome said. "They tried to taser him, that didn't work. Then he attacked one of the officers with a knife and the officer was forced to shoot him."In New Rochelle, a longtime neighbor and friend of Samuel Cruz's said she had expressed concern last week that he had ceased taking anti-psychotic medication.
        She said friends notified police for help."He is normally a very gentle person," neighbor Annette Deutsch said. "I told them on Thursday. Two policemen were here and we talked a long time. I said he has to be hospitalized. He's off his medication."(Sunday) he was in his apartment and the next thing I heard there was a ton of police here. I couldn't count them," Deutsch said. "He had been shot dead."The death of Samuel Cruz is the latest controversial police shooting in the Lower Hudson Valley.The family of Herve Gilles filed a lawsuit last year accusing a Spring Valley police officer of negligence in fatally shooting the mentally ill man whom a grand jury determined attacked the officer while drunk in December 2011.In November 2011, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., 68, was killed by White Plain police, who broke down his apartment door after an hourlong standoff and shot him when he came at officers with a knife and a hatchet.Grand juries in both cases did not indict the police officers who killed the men.
        The woman was enjoying a morning feeding the baby ducks and strolling in Christchurch Park with her children when a man suddenly demanded her purse, butted her when she refused to hand it over and then chased her.The victim has said the attack left her "terrified" as she thought she was going to be killed.The man struck the woman on the back as she ran, and she suffered cuts and bruises in the incident in Christchurch Park.Police have issued an e-fit of the suspect and also CCTV images of a man in Christchurch Mansion they wish to speak to taken around the time of the robbery at 11am on Saturday.The 38-year-old victim – who has asked not to be named – said she had been enjoying a morning with her two children, aged three and one year, feeding the baby ducks and strolling in the park. They moved round to the pond near the bowling green, which was when the man approached them.She said: "This guy just came up to me very calmly and demanded my purse."I, stupidly, said no – it was just my first reaction.
       
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