Officer shoots knife attacker

AN OFFICER shot an emotionally disturbed man in the leg in Harlem on Sunday after he charged at cops with two knives in his hands, police said.

Two officers were responding to a report of a suicidal person in a sixth-floor apartment on W. 143rd St. near Riverside Drive just before 5:30 p.m. when they came across Paris Cummings, 27, according to police sources.

Police said Cummings may have been trying to commit “suicide by cop” because he placed the 911 call himself.

Both officers had the NYPD’s crisisintervention training, and one was carrying a Taser, police said.

But when the officers knocked on Cummings’ door, he answered with knives in his hands, said Assistant Chief Rodney Harrison, executive officer of the patrol services bureau. Then the man advanced on the officers in a tight hallway, and one cop shot him in the leg.

The officers gave Cummings first aid as they waited for an ambulance, Harrison said. Both knives were recovered.

Cummings, who also had a self-inflicted stab wound to the stomach, was expected to survive, sources said.

Video posted to Twitter shows medics wheeling a man out of the apartment building on a stretcher.

Cummings went to St. Luke’s Hospital in serious condition, and the officer who fired went to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia for tinnitus treatment, sources said.