NEW YORK — Police responding to a call about a robbery at a deli Sunday shot and killed the suspect after he pointed what looked like a firearm at them.

Police said the shooting happened around 12:40 a.m. in Brooklyn. The officers saw the man, identified as Sergio Reyes, 18, of Brooklyn, walking on the street and issued verbal commands.

Authorities say Reyes pointed a black firearm — which later was determined to be an imitation gun — toward the officers, who fired at him. He was hit multiple times and pronounced dead at the hospital.

Police said the pistol was recovered at the scene.

In South Carolina on Sunday, an officer responding to a hostage siege shot a man who pointed a gun at deputies after leaving the home.

Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said the armed man ran from the home in Prosperity at the same time the three hostages inside the house escaped around 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

Foster says deputies chased the man, who first hid in a ditch and then began charging on the officers, threatening them as they tried to hide behind a tree.

The sheriff says the man refused to drop the gun and was shot by one deputy. He has been taken to a hospital.

The names of the officer and the man were not released. Foster said they are both white.

In Houston, two men were fatally shot during a large fight at a strip club just before 6 a.m. Sunday.

Police say the brawl broke out at a club called Fantasy Island and escalated to gunfire when two men pulled out guns and started shooting. About 30 people witnessed the shootings. The two men were dead at the scene.

Associated Press