Physicians assistant, 79, killed by NYPD after pointing gun at cop is IDd as stunned wife defends him as nice man

The stunned wife of an elderly physician’s assistant killed by police Tuesday night after he pointed a loaded gun at a cop defended her husband as a “nice” man.Police sources have identified the deceased gun-wielding 79-year-old as Emil Williams of Great Neck, an affluent town on the Long Island’s North Shore.His weeping wife, Laraine Williams, told The Post in a brief phone interview that she was “not holding up” after her husband’s “horrific” end.“I’m not holding up,” she said.“My husband was a physician’s assistant.

His patients and his staff, I don’t know what they’re going through ….But he was a nice man.”The couple’s next-door neighbor, Jose Quispe, was also shocked by Williams’ violent end — he didn’t even know his neighbor had a gun.“I knew the guy a long time, but I didn’t know nothing about that,” Quispe said.

“I always said ‘Hi,’ I always talked to him.He’s a nice person … I just saw him about a week ago.

He seemed completely normal.”NYPD cops shot and killed Williams at around 6:40 p.m.on Tuesday outside the 111th Precinct in Bayside, Queens, authorities and law enforcement sources have said.He’d walked up to the station house and chatted up the officer assigned to security, then allegedly pulled a gun and pointed it at the cop, Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera said during a press conference Tuesday night.The officer told him to drop it, then called for backup — which brought four more cops to the scene.“The officer gave verbal commands for the male to put down the firearm and radioed for assistance,” Rivera said.

“Additional officers approached and gave additional verbal commands to drop the firearm, but he did not comply and continued to point it at our officer.”Williams ignored the cops’ repeated demands to back off, Rivera said.That’s when they opened fire, hitting the man several times and killing him.Authorities later found a loaded Cobra .38 special firearm at the scen...