Cops just miss being shot, nab susp at project

Two Brooklyn cops narrowly escaped being shot outside a city housing complex Tuesday, the Daily News has learned.

The officers chased down and arrested the suspected 37-year-old gunman, cops said.

The cops were wrapping up a call in at the Breukelen Houses on E. 108th St. in Canarsie around 2 p.m., when they they heard gunfire and felt bullets whiz by their faces, police sources said.

Cops who responded to their call for help spotted the shooter and nabbed him — and his gun. He was taken to the 69th Precinct stationhouse for questioning.

The officers may not have been the intended targets, the sources said, but detectives are looking into the veracity of the 911 call that sent the cops to the scene in the first place.

They were on hand to supervise a man picking up his things from an ex-girlfriend, who has an order of protection against him, sources said.

The alleged triggerman has a criminal history and was reported missing in 2015 when he walked out of Brookdale University Hospital on E. 98th St. near Linden Blvd.

The NYCHA development where the shooting took place, Breukelen Houses, has experienced a spike in crime so far this year, with the NYPD recording 45 major crimes through Sept. 23 compared to 27 for the same time period last year.

That’s a 66% spike, and follows a downward trend in crime at Breukelen when the number of major crimes dropped from 54 in 2016 to 43 last year.

There has been only one shooting at the Breukelen Houses this year, although the number of felony assaults had jumped significantly from 14 in all of last year to 19 in 2018.