UPDATE ON NYPD POLICE SHOOTING WHERE 2 BYSTANDERS GOT SHOT - Crazed black man had 'death wish' before taunting cops near Times Square into shooting two: sources

Glenn Broadnax 'told investigators that he wanted to die,' a police source says. Broadnax, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has been charged with menacing, obstructing governmental administration, rioting, cocaine possession, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct in connection with the incident.

The deranged, unarmed man whose wild antics Saturday night led cops to open fire near Times Square, wounding two bystanders with stray bullets, had a death wish, a police source said Sunday.

“He told investigators that he wanted to die,” the source said, adding that Glenn Broadnax had been smoking marijuana. “He told police he was off his medication and that he heard voices in his head, that people were talking to him.”

The Bedford-Stuyvesant man, described by cops as emotionally disturbed, had 23 prior arrests for offenses such as assault, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.

The fracas at busy W. 42nd St. and Eighth Ave. broke out about 9:36 p.m. when Broadnax attempted to evade cops who were trying to stop him from weaving between vehicles, cops said.

"This individual was blocking traffic and appeared to be attempting to be hit by cars when a police officer on foot patrol attempted to take him into custody," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said hours later.

Broadnax, 35, was unharmed in the shooting and unarmed when he was arrested, police said.

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