Police shoot gun-wielding man confronting ex-girlfriend in the Bronx

Cops shot and wounded a Bronx man after he confronted his ex-girlfriend with a gun around 1:45 a.m., polics said.
After a fight earlier in the day, Yancy Jiminial, 21, returned to the Mott Haven apartment of his ex-girlfriend Denny Pena, 21, with an unlicensed 40-caliber Smith and Wesson semiautomatic handgun, police and relatives said.
Pena fled the apartment, leaving her 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter behind with her brother, Joel. Jiminial is 3-year-old boy's father, police and relatives said. Pena called 911 from outside the apartment, police said.
Joel fought Jiminial with a knife until four officers arrived, a neighbor said. Police fired 12 rounds after Jiminial pointed his gun at officers and refused to drop it, police sources said. Jiminial was hit once in the right hip, police said.
Stunned neighbors saw police take Jiminial from the building on Willis Ave. "It took a lot of them because he was fighting. He was resisting arrest," said Shantel Cherry, 18. He was being operated on at Lincoln Hospital Monday morning and was expected to survive, police said.
Jiminial and Pena had separated a year and a half ago after being together about three years, relatives said. Pena's sister, Diana, 17, said she was shocked by the violence. "He was always a good guy. That's why I'm very surprised. I didn't expect this," Diana said. Diana said Jiminial took care of his son on weekends.
But Jiminial attacked Pena in 2006, a police source said, and had threatened his own mother and grandmother in the past.
Two officers involved in the shooting are being evaluated for stress-related trauma at New York Presbyterian Hospital, police say. The police department is investigating the incident.