New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Tuesday that he does not believe the Queens district attorney should prosecute a mentally ill man who was shot by police as he ran toward officers with a knife, arguing that the individual needs mental health treatment instead.

Jabez Chakraborty, 22, was holding a large kitchen knife and charged at the officers who responded to the emergency call from the family on Jan. 26, NYPD officials said. The officers repeatedly told him to drop it as they attempted to de-escalate the situation before one officer fired several times, striking Chakraborty, who was then taken to a hospital in critical condition.

The family had called 911 to report that Chakraborty was throwing glass at his home on Parsons Blvd. in Briarwood, NYPD officials said, according to the New York Daily News.

After the officers responded to the home, Chakraborty charged them with the knife, according to the NYPD. The officers repeatedly instructed him to drop the weapon and attempted to isolate him in the home’s living room by closing a glass door between them and Chakraborty. But police said he managed to open the door and overwhelm the officers with the knife extended.

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The officers did not draw their guns until Chakraborty pulled the knife, NYPD officials said.

The officers provided first aid and attempted to stop the bleeding following the shooting, according to the agency. He was then rushed to the hospital, where he is in critical but stable condition.

The family had asked for emergency medical workers to respond to the incident rather than police, the family said in a statement. The family said Chakraborty was shot at least four times.

"We called for help," the family said. "We called 911 for an ambulance to provide medical attention for our son, who was in emotional distress. We did not call the police. Instead of medical responders, the NYPD arrived and shot our son multiple times right in front of us."

The Queens district attorney's office is investigating the incident, with preliminary reports suggesting prosecutors were looking at potentially seeking an indictment for attempted murder.

But Mamdani, who has viewed the body camera footage, said the man needs mental health treatment instead of facing criminal charges.

"In viewing this footage, it is clear to me that what Jabez needs is mental health treatment, not criminal prosecution from a district attorney, and we are talking about a family that is enduring the kind of pain that no family should and an individual that has lived with schizophrenia for many years," the mayor said at a news conference on Tuesday.

"A person experiencing a mental health episode does not always have to be served first or exclusively by a police officer. It is important for us to have all of the options available," he added.

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The mayor also said he had met with Chakraborty's family, who had criticized him for his initial response to the shooting. Mamdani said hours after the shooting that police had "encountered an individual wielding a knife," and that he was "grateful to the first responders who put themselves on the line each day to keep our communities safe."

"After all this, we saw Mayor Mamdani’s statement applauding the NYPD officers that shot our son, threatened and lied to us, and kept us from seeing our son for over 24 hours," the family's statement read. "Why is the mayor applauding officers who recklessly almost killed our son in front of us?"

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ ex-wife Melinda French Gates distanced herself from him during a Tuesday appearance on NPR's "Wild Card" podcast, saying that society is in for a "reckoning."

The Justice Department released more than 3 million Jeffrey Epstein records, including his personal emails, last week. While many of the allegations are about some of the world’s most powerful figures, one of the most viral scandals is of a purportedly unknowing victim. 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) released more than 3 million Jeffrey Epstein investigative records, including Epstein's personal emails, on Friday. Some of the emails allege that Bill Gates had additional affairs and tried to get medication to treat a sexually transmitted infection. He also allegedly wanted to give the medication to his wife at the time, Melinda, the medication without her knowing.

A spokesperson for Bill Gates denied the claims, telling Fox News Digital, "These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame."

NPR "Wild Card" podcast host Rachel Martin asked Melinda Gates about the claims. 

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"Well, let me say this. I think we're having a reckoning as a society, right? No girl, no girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever was going on with all of the various people around him. No girl, I mean, it's just it's beyond heartbreaking, right?," Melinda Gates said. "I remember being those ages those girls were. I remember my daughters being those ages, right? So, um for me it's personally hard whenever those details come up, right? Because, um, brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage."

While saddened, she emphasized that these allegations are for people like her husband to deal with. 

"But I have moved on from that. I purposely pushed it away and I moved on. I'm in a really unexpected, beautiful place in my life. So whatever questions remain there of what I don't - can't even begin to know all of it. Those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband. They need the answer to those things, not me! Well, and I am so happy to be away from all the muck."

Martin later asked Melinda Gates what her dominant emotion is when she reads news coverage about the crimes and scandals surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. 

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"Sad. Just unbelievable sadness. Unbelievable sadness. Right?" she said. "Again, I'm able to take my own sadness and look at those young girls and say, ‘My god, how did they - how did that happen to those girls?"

"And so for me, it's just sadness," she continued. "I left my marriage. I had to leave my marriage. I wanted to leave my marriage. I had to leave the - I felt I needed to eventually leave the foundation. So, it's just sad. That's the truth, right? And it's kind of like, at least for me, I've been able to move on in life. And I hope there's some justice for those now-women, right? We see them standing up in front of microphones in D.C. Um, what they went through is just unimaginable,."

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