HEY, NOT SO FAST!
Slay-bid rap vs. slippery suspect
A handcuffed suspect who briefly escaped from an NYPD vehicle following an Upper West Side shooting has been identified as the triggerman and was charged with attempted murder, cops said Tuesday.
Ex-con Raymond Johnson, 28, was initially busted Monday for fighting with another man at the scene of the gunfire and tossed into the back of a marked SUV.
Dramatic cellphone video allegedly shows him slipping out the vehicle’s passenger-side rear window and making a break for it — before a cop tackles him in the intersection of West 63rd Street and West End Avenue.
A violent struggle ensued during which Johnson allegedly broke free — and lost a shoe — before getting grabbed again and swarmed by a bunch of cops who picked him up and carried him away.
The incident is under internal review, according to the NYPD.
A subsequent investigation revealed that Johnson had previously shot Joshua Wiley, 27, one block north on West End at around 4:25 p.m., the NYPD said.
“Witnesses and video evidence led us to him,” according to a source familiar with the case.
After getting hit twice in the torso, Wiley allegedly picked up the gun and fired two rounds, neither of which hit anyone, cops said.
Wiley’s injuries weren’t considered life-threatening, and he was taken for treatment at NewYork
Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, cops said. The gun has yet to be found. Johnson, who lives on Amsterdam Avenue, was charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest and escape.
He has 18 prior arrests, sources said — and a pair of convictions for which he spent time in state prison, records show.
In 2010, he was sentenced to up to three years for attempted narcotics sales. He was paroled in October 2012 but was busted little more than a month later for a pair of attacks on his son’s mother.
Despite being slapped with an order of protection, Johnson repeatedly returned to the woman’s home, where he banged on the door and screamed “I want to see my son!” court papers say.
During another incident, he caught her outside her apartment and choked her, court papers say.
Johnson pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court and was sentenced to up to three years in prison, which was extended to six after he was caught with contraband behind bars, records show. He was released on parole in June.
Two other men were also arrested at the scene of Monday’s shooting, with Jesse Miranda, 30, charged with assault and Levander Floyd, 29, charged with obstructing government administration and disorderly conduct, cops said.