A monster storm ripped through the city Thursday evening, killing one person, snapping mighty trees, and flipping tractor-trailers like toys.

New Yorkers scrambled for cover from torrential rain, hail the size of nickels, and 100 mph winds when the storm hit at 5:20 p.m. on the heels of tornado warnings.

Weather officials could not confirm a twister touched down, but witnesses reported funnel clouds in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens.

The sky turned a sickening shade of green as the destructive winds blew in, toppling a church steeple, blowing out windows and mowing down a forest’s worth of trees.

Multiple trees down and wires on Utopia Parkway after a major storm hit the area.

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A man suspected of shooting a Johns Hopkins Hospital doctor has fatally shot himself and his mother, who had been hospitalized, according to Baltimore police.

The shootings ended a four-hour standoff at Hopkins’ sprawling East Baltimore campus.

The suspect had barricaded himself on the eighth floor of the hospital’s Nelson Building for about four hours, according to police. The doctor, whose identity has not been released, was shot in the abdomen. He is in surgery but his injuries are not life-threatening.

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