A knife-wielding man was shot by police officers responding to a domestic dispute on New York City's Upper East Side Monday, law enforcement sources told NBCNewYork.com. The suspect's mother was also struck by the gunfire.

It happened at about 2:14 p.m. ET at 408 E. 65th Street. Police said a woman called 911 to say her 22-year-old brother was holding their mother at knifepoint.

"The police trucks started coming in, and sirens were going all over, cops were running," Amy Emery, who was in the area attending a job interview, said. "People were running around, they were actually screaming and running away from that area."

Responding officers arrived to find Edgar Soto and his mother in the sixth-floor hallway outside their apartment, authorities said. The officers called for back-up, and a sergeant arrived with a stun gun and deployed it on Soto, to no effect.

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That's when Soto turned to approach the police officers with the knife, police said. Two officers fired a total of five shots, and Soto was shot in the abdomen, side and groin.

His mother, identified as 49-year-old Flora Soto, was hit in the buttocks, police said. 

Both were taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

It's not clear what sparked the dispute.

Longtime friends of Edgar Soto said there was no warning for what happened.

"It's shocking," neighbor Steve Letavish said. "I knew the kid for awhile. I give him a high-five when I see him. You don't believe it until you hear it for yourself, and you can't go home because of it."

Another neighbor, Daniel Brown, said, "My heart hurts for the father. I've known him for a long time."

Edgar Soto's father is said to be a longtime city sanitation supervisor. He could not be located Monday.

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NYPD Officer Eder Loor was stabbed during a confrontation in East Harlem, New York.

A police officer stabbed in the skull while responding to a 911 call "has a shot at a full recovery," according to his doctor, because the knife blade narrowly missed vital brain functions.

NYPD officer Eder Loor, 28, was stabbed in the face and neck and had bleeding on the brain when he arrived at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, officials told NBC New York.

Dr. Joshua Bederson, professor and chair of neurosurgery at the hospital, said Loor would be uncomfortable for a while and would have low energy, but said "my guess is that within a month he'll be bugging me about getting back to work."

Overall, he said, Loor is "as lucky as you get." The knife, he said, went deep into Loor's temporal lobe and nicked an artery that, if it had been cut, likely would have killed him.

The New York Times reported that the folding knife’s three-inch blade passed half an inch below structures that control motor functions and another half-inch from structures that control vision. It touched the nerve that gives sensation to the face and nicked, but did not penetrate, a major artery.

“It was a millimeter (0.04 of an inch) from everything; it was ridiculous,” Bederson told the New York Times. “You don’t want to overemphasize, but he was at death’s door. He was minutes away from crashing.”

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Loor's pregnant wife, Dina, said her husband loves his job and will surely want to return to it.

"This is his passion, this is what he's lived for ... he doesn't quit ... he wants more and more in life," she told NBC New York.

Loor had been responding to a 911 call in East Harlem by the suspect's mother, who had called police saying her son needed to go to a hospital because he was "acting in an erratic manner."

The suspect, Terrence Hale, has several previous arrests, one for assault with a knife, officials said. A law enforcement official said police officers had been called several times to the home where he lives with his mother.

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The officers were escorting him out of the apartment building when he suddenly produced a knife and began stabbing Loor. He fled but was caught two blocks away.

He was undergoing a psych evaluation at Metropolitan Hospital. It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney.

Dina Loor, 25, told the New York Times that she had brought their four-and-a-half-year-old daughter into her husband’s room for a bedside visit. The girl was happy “to see her dad,” Loor said.

Their next child, a boy, is due in July, the newspaper said. 

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FLORENCE, SC -- Police say a 9-year-old girl stabbed her grandmother in the back after being told to turn off the TV show she was watching, according to news reports.

Police told the Florence Morning News and other local news outlets that the incident occurred after the child's mother left the house and the girl began to argue with her grandmother about turning the TV back on.

As the older woman was sitting down reading a newspaper, the girl approached her with a kitchen knife and stabbed her in the back, said Florence Police Maj. Carlos Raines told NBC affiliate WMBF-TV.

The grandmother was treated and released from the hospital, while the Department of Social Services placed the child in the custody of another relative, Raines told the paper.

The girl, whose name was not released because of her age, will be charged in family court, the Morning News reported. She was placed in the custody of another relative while she awaits charges in family court.

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