Law enforcement says an off-duty New York Police Department officer fatally shot a man pointing a fake gun at the officer on Staten Island.

A man was shot multiple times by an off-duty NYPD officer near a Staten Island diner, according to police. Just after 8 p.m. Friday, a man believed to have a gun was said to be behind Andrew’s Diner on Hylan Boulevard near William Avenue in Great Kills,

An off-duty NYPD police officer fatally shot an emotionally disturbed 44-year-old man found waving around a fake pistol outside a popular Staten Island diner — hoping to die in a “suicide by