An NYPD officer shot and killed a man who had apparently armed himself with a loaded revolver to defend his brother during a holdup of a home, police said Friday.

Duane Browne, 26, was shot once in the chest Thursday night just outside the basement door of the two-story house in East New York shared by the two men and their mother.He died after retreating and collapsing inside, police said.

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