New York Daily News

Officers suspended after fatal shooting response

- Esha Ray, Rocco Parascando­la and Adam Shrier

A man was found dead in Brooklyn Saturday after two NYPD cops blew off a 911 call that could have potentiall­y saved his life, sources said.

The officers were suspended following the bungled response to a 911 call from a neighbor reporting a man screaming for help near her home on Decatur St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said.

The cops went to the address near Thomas S. Boyland St. shortly after 6 a.m. But the pair, apparently convinced that the report was unfounded, never left their car, sources said.

A second 911 call was made some 20 minutes later. The responding officers this time found a 43-year-old man’s lifeless body, sources said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

It was not immediatel­y clear if the same cops responded to both calls.

The identity of the dead man was not released.

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