Cops plug gunman in Harlem shootout

POLICE SHOT and wounded a 23-year-old ex-con who opened fire on a Harlem street Sunday evening, cops said.

Franklyn Nunez was in stable condition at Harlem Hospital with wounds to his chest and thigh after the 6:30 p.m. confrontation outside a 99-cent store on Frederick Douglass Blvd. and 143rd St.

Police said they recovered a Colt .45, which was reported stolen in North Carolina. It had five hollow-point bullets in the magazine and one in the chamber.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Nunez was part of a crowd on the street but started to walk away as police approached.

Nunez, who got off parole in September after a two-year prison term for five illegal guns, ran as the two cops started following him.

“He turns and fires a .45-caliber handgun twice,” Browne said.

One of the officers, a 26-yearold on the force since 2009, returned fire, hitting Nunez twice, he said.

Although several witnesses said they did not see Nunez holding a gun as he was shot while leaping over a car, a police source said he had the firearm in his hand when he hit the sidewalk.

“The cop saw he was getting away and shot him,” said Jasmine Little, 19, of Harlem.

Immediately after the shooting, the scene grew tense as a crowd gathered and began chanting “No justice. No peace!”

Neither officer was wounded in the shooting.