New York Daily News

Shooting susp: Siri, get my wife

- BY THOMAS TRACY AND ESHA RAY

Siri was no help.

A shooting suspect who allegedly pulled a loaded gun on an NYPD officer during a car stop on the Lower East Side tried to ask Siri to phone his wife as he was being arrested, body camera footage obtained by the Daily News shows.

“Hey Siri! Hey Siri!” driver Amado Zubidi, 28, yelled as he lay on the ground next to his Dodge Caravan in handcuffs, the video shows.

“I’m just trying to call my wife,” he explains.

“Don’t worry about that right now,” an officer replies.

“Do me a favor and stop, all right?”

The bizarre plea for help capped a three-minute-long clip that captured the Saturday morning bust on Columbia St.

Police had been tailing Zubidi since Friday after they found the white Dodge Caravan had been involved in a road-rage shooting at W. 178th St. and Amsterdam Ave. in Washington Heights near the George Washington Bridge.

Prosecutor­s believe that Zubidi got into an argument with another driver April 28, threw a bottle at the victim, and then fired a shot from his window before driving off, according to court papers.

About 6 a.m. on Saturday, Officers Joseph Stokes and Daniel Amaral were on patrol when Zubidi’s Caravan popped up again on Columbia St., authoritie­s said.

As Stokes and Amaral approached the minivan, body camera footage shows that Zubidi demanded to know why he was being stopped, and that he became enraged when he didn’t get a response.

Zubidi (below), who lives a block away, was charged with attempted aggravated murder of a police officer and weapons possession.

He was ordered held without bail at his arraignmen­t in Manhattan Criminal Court on Sunday.

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