New York Daily News

Slay rap in off-duty Brooklyn road rage

- BY JOHN MARZULLI, CHRISTINA CARREGA-WOODBY and LEONARD GREENE Protesters march from Brooklyn Bridge to Times Square days after Delrawn Small’s July 4 death at hands of cop Wayne Isaacs.

A CITY COP was indicted Monday on second-degree murder charges in the road-rage shooting death of driver Delrawn Small, who was killed in a July 4 confrontat­ion with the off-duty officer, sources said.

The cop, Wayne Isaacs, will be charged Tuesday, a day after a grand jury handed up the indictment to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderm­an, who acts as a special prosecutor in matters involving police shootings.

This is the first case in which Schneiderm­an is prosecutin­g a cop for killing a civilian since Gov. Cuomo issued a July 2015 executive order empowering the attorney general to prosecute the cases.

Isaacs, 37, did not testify before the grand jury.

Prosecutor­s said Isaacs gunned down Small, also 37, in front of the victim’s girlfriend and three children during a confrontat­ion on Atlantic Ave. in East New York, Brooklyn.

A witness said the rapidly escalating confrontat­ion began when Small, driving a 2016 Kia, was cut off by Isaacs shortly after the cop’s 4 p.m.-midnight shift had come to an end.

Police said Small, of Cypress Hills, chased Isaacs’ vehicle.

A surveillan­ce video captured Small, who was two cars behind Isaacs, exiting his vehicle when both had reached a red light. Seconds after Small approached Isaacs’ car at Atlantic Ave. and Bradford St., the cop is seen shooting the victim from inside his vehicle.

Isaacs had initially claimed to police that he opened fire because Small had punched him in the face at least twice — an allegation the video does not support. Small was shot twice in the torso. Prosecutor­s will ask for bail to be set at $500,000 and for Isaacs to wear an ankle bracelet to monitor his movements, sources said.

Isaacs, who has been a member of the NYPD for three years, was assigned to the 79th Precinct in BedfordStu­yvesant.

Small’s widow, Wenona Hauser Small, who was in the midst of reconcilin­g with Small after living apart, welcomed the charges.

“I am grateful to the attorney general in getting this indictment,” she said Monday afternoon. “I will be in court for every appearance of the police officer, fighting for justice for the wrongful killing of my husband.”

Her lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, who is representi­ng her in a wrongful-death action, echoed the comments.

“This demonstrat­es that the governor’s executive order works to bring justice to victims’ families,” Rubenstein added.

Small had a rap sheet that included 19 arrests, serving time in prison on three separate occasions.

He finished parole on his latest arrest for assault in 2013, jail records show.

Isaacs was accused in a 2014 lawsuit of a false arrest in which the suspect was “punched, kicked and struck several times in the head and body.”

Isaacs is on modified duty without a gun or badge.

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