Cops Shoot Attacker On The GCP

After the horrific incident last Friday, in which two off-duty police officers shot a young man attacking them for no apparent reason, family, friends and investigators are desperately seeking answers.
They want to know why DAndreDarnell Jeff Cisco, 25, who his family says was a religious man with an aspiring career as a chef, would jump out of his fast-moving vehicle on the Grand Central Parkway and viciously attack the officers seeking to help him.
Questions have been raised whether this crazed reaction from an unarmed man enough to justify being shot by the off-duty officers at point-blank range?
This question and more will hopefully be answered in the coming days and weeks as those involved try to make sense out of a terrible incident.
Cisco was driving with his friend Russell Ballenger, 25, in his 1999 Kia Sephia on Friday night when at 6:22 p.m., he unexpectedly jumped out of his car onto the Grand Central Parkway. The sight of Cisco leaping from the vehicle caused an All Seasons taxicab and the black Dodge pickup truck behind them to slam on the brakes and then swerve to avoid an accident. In the truck were Detective Sergeant Stephen Borders and Det. Jean Weller.
Borchers, a 13-year police veteran from Lake Ronkonkoma who works in the Queens Detective Bureau, had finished his shift at the 112 Precinct and was giving Weller, of Smithtown, a ride home when the incident unfolded. They immediately exited the vehicle in an attempt to help Cisco, but then the details became sketchy.
Investigators are baffled why Cisco would lash out at the people coming to his aid, but according to sources, Cisco got up and chased the officers back to their vehicle. He then proceeded to attack Borchers through the open drivers side window, and in an attempt to escape, Borchers stepped violently on the gas, crashing his truck into the cab. Cisco, they said, then punched Weller through the open passenger side window. Opening the door, he started beating her, which she says forced her to draw her five-shot chief revolver. As he tried to take her firearm away, she fired three times. Almost instantaneously, Borchers fired a shot from his Glock 9 mm handgun. All four shots struck Cisco, who died with his body half in, half out of the truck.
Cisco, called "Dre" by his friends, grew up in Glen Cove but moved to Michigan during high school. He went to Georgia two years ago where he had a two-year-old daughter, Nadiya. He returned to Glen Cove to attend the New York Culinary Arts School in his quest to become a more experienced chef. Cisco did not have a history of psychological problems, leading to the suspicion of drug use. But by press time, according to Ellen Barakove of the Medical Examiners Office, "results of the toxicology reports (had) not been released."