A man is dead after police shot him while trying to break up an altercation between him and his mother. Our Bree Driscoll has more from Springfield Gardens.

34-year-old Tarieq Ivan has a newborn baby girl so he is used to getting up in the middle of the night. However, early Saturday Morning he was woken up by a much different scene.

"We didn't hear the sirens we saw the lights around 2:30, 3 in the morning," Ivan said. "We didn't think anything of it. Probably thought it was an ambulance and someone felt sick."

The lights were police responding to a home on Westgate Street in Springfield Gardens to the call of a domestic issue. Police say when they arrived they heard a woman screaming.

A 911 call from a woman that stated a male was holding a woman, and the woman was screaming "He's gonna kill me, he's gonna kill me."

That is when they saw a 28-year-old man threatening his mother with this screwdriver. Police say they asked him to drop it. He refused. That is when they say they tried to use Taser on him.

"The Taser did not strike the suspect," said NYPD Chief of Patrol Terence Monahan. "The struggle continued to ensue with the suspect who was still armed with a weapon. During the struggle, two officers discharge one round each striking the suspect."

The man was shot by two officers — once in the shoulder and once in the leg. He was brought to Jamaica Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The two officers were brought to Long Island Jewish Hospital and the mother is reported to be uninjured. Neighbors say they are surprised by this incident.

"It is definitely a safe neighborhood," said one. "I am surprised to hear about it. I am lost because everybody over here we all know each other."

"I haven't known any young man in this neighborhood that could commit such a crime," said another.

Police say the man has two previous arrests, one in 2014 and the other last year. Both in Suffolk County and both for criminal possession of a weapon.