A desperate call for help from a father in the Bronx whose adult son struggles with his mental health ended when responding officers shot his son within 28 seconds of their arrival, saying he had brandished a knife.

The son, Raul de la Cruz, 42, remained unconscious for days after being shot Sunday morning. He was awake Thursday, his family said, and speaking a little.

But as he struggles to recover in a room at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx guarded by the police, his family is asking how a call seeking medical help ended with Mr. de la Cruz in critical condition, shot six times in the abdomen, right leg and his chest, according to his sister, Maisset de la Cruz.

A former Manhattan gynecologist who was accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women was convicted on Tuesday of inducing patients to cross state lines for what they believed were routine examinations during which he sexually assaulted them.

The federal charges against Robert A. Hadden, who has not worked as a doctor since 2012, stemmed from assaults against four patients who traveled from and through New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania for gynecological and obstetrics appointments.

Six years ago, Mr. Hadden had admitted to sexual abuse in a state-court plea agreement that allowed him to avoid time behind bars, infuriating scores of women who said he had preyed on them. The conviction on Tuesday was, for some, a measure of justice delayed but finally delivered.

The wave of migrants who began arriving in New York from the southern border last year was unusual in many respects. Unlike most immigrants who make their way to the city, people were arriving in buses en masse, many with few local ties and little more than the clothes on their backs. More than 36,000 have come to the city since the spring, Mayor Eric Adams said Friday, and roughly 24,000 have remained.

As the Biden administration looks for ways to contain the southern border, those who arrived last year are beginning to build new lives. Some are struggling. Others are making strides.