NYPD Officer shoots, kills man in Brooklyn following traffic stop

A police officer shot and killed an armed man after the two tussled following a traffic stop in Brooklyn late Thursday night, cops said.

Officers pulled over a green Acura with four people inside near the intersection of Huntington and Henry Sts. in Red Hook about 10 p.m., police sources said.

The man who was eventually shot fled the vehicle, and one of the officers pursued him on foot to Hamilton Ave., underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway overpass, the sources said.

As the man came near W. Ninth St., he grappled with the cop, leading the officer to fire at least one shot, with a round hitting the man in the back of the head, multiple police sources said. The man died at the scene, and police did not release his name.

The officer was taken to Lutheran Medical Center for treatment of unspecified injuries.

A gun was recovered at the scene, the sources said, and the other three people in the car were taken to the NYPD’s 76th Precinct stationhouse for questioning.

It was not clear what led the officers to pull the car over. A police source said at least some of the cops involved in pulling over the Acura were assigned to Operation Losing Proposition, an anti-prostitution sting.

By Kerry Burke , Rocco Parascandola AND Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS