New York Daily News

Vid of G-man’s shooting at trial

- BY JOHN ANNESE AND KERRY BURKE

An FBI agent who was shot during a gunfight with an alleged Crips member in Brooklyn pleaded with police to rush him to a hospital, and worried aloud that he was mortally wounded, body camera footage showed at the suspected gangbanger’s federal trial Tuesday.

“I don’t want to die, man. I have a son,” Christophe­r Harper told police officers right after describing the man who shot him and the bullet-riddled BMW in which the gunman fled. “It’s really starting to hurt. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.”

Harper was parked outside the Canarsie home of Ronell Watson, 31, near E. 92nd St. and Ave. N, on Dec. 9 when the alleged drug-dealing Crips member burst out of the BMW and opened fire, prosecutor­s said. Harper was shot in the shoulder, but returned fire, hitting Watson in the hand. Harper survived the attack. Watson then allegedly drove the blood-smeared Beamer two miles to a body shop on Remsen Ave. and headed to Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, where he is said to have lied about being an innocent bystander in the shootout.

Harper was on a FaceTime call with his wife when he was shot. Prosecutor­s entered her frantic 911 call into evidence Tuesday on the opening day of Watson’s trial.

NYPD officers tried to calm Harper as they waited for an ambulance.

“Please, just take me to the closest hospital, I’m begging you!” the wounded fed said as he sat by the front tire of a nearby car.

“We got you, man, we got you, we got you,” an officer told him. The cops cut off some of his clothing to dress his wound.

“Where’s the f—ing bus [ambulance]?” Harper said as they waited for medics to arrive. “No exit. The bullet’s in me. I’m not doing well.”

Watson’s trial will continue in Brooklyn Federal Court on Wednesday. His family declined to comment outside the courtroom.

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