She did cops’ job

Shot dead near B’klyn tennis courts

The heartbroken daughter of a 76-year-old man who died after being jumped by a stranger on a Queens street says she was forced to become a “vigilante” and hunt down evidence of the attack because cops wouldn’t investigate.

Jorge Cornejo died June 25 from a head injury he sustained days earlier at the corner of Jamaica Ave. and 171st St. in Jamaica.

His daughter, Jennifer Espinal, was sure her father had been attacked — his injuries didn’t appear consistent with a fall. “I’m a nurse. I know the difference,” Espinal said. “Medically, it didn’t make sense to me.”

But when she brought her information and knowledge to a lieutenant at the 103rd Precinct, the cop refused to take a report.

“He talked down to us,” Espinal, 45, said of the lieutenant. “He declined to make report, and told us to get more evidence.”

So Espinal, a Long Island resident, took on the detectives’ work.

“At three in the morning and eight in the morning I was out asking around,” said Espinal.

“He made me be a vigilante,” she said of the NYPD lieutenant who dismissed her claims.

It didn’t take long for Espinal to learn that her father was attacked by a bearded, shirtless man who was caught on a surveillance camera running away from the scene.

Espinal learned that the man stormed out of a grocery store at the corner and randomly attacked her father before running off during the June 20 attack — a day before Father’s Day.

Cornejo was unconscious when cops found him at about 11:30 p.m. Medics took him to Jamaica Hospital, where he died five days later.

“It’s sad that a man that was so happy was murdered,” she said of her beloved father. “He was an amazing man.”

When she brought the surveillance footage to the

A man was fatally shot in a bloody attack in broad daylight near the tennis courts at a Brooklyn park Tuesday, officials said.

Cops were called to Lincoln Terrace Park, which lies on the border of Crown Heights and Brownsville near Buffalo and East New York Aves., after the sound of gunfire exploded about 11:50 a.m. and was picked up by ShotSpotter, a series of microphones placed around the city to detect shooting incidents.

When officers arrived, they found the 27-year-old victim, identified by friends as Robert McLeod, sprawled on the ground at the foot of a stone staircase near the park’s tennis courts.

He’d been shot in both the head and chest, his elevated legs resting on the stone stairs, sources said.

“They shot him in the f—-ing face, ” McLeod’s distraught friend

Luz Pagan Gonzalez said. “We wanted to see his body, but the cop said we couldn’t because of his face. He didn’t want us to see.”

Two shell casings were found at the scene, a police source said. A blue moped belonging to McLeod (inset) was left at the top of the stairs, friends said.

Longtime friend Melvin Camacho said he was supposed to meet McLeod at the park, but knew something was wrong when he saw police officers gathering there.

“He told me that he was going to the store and that he’d come back to the park,” said Camacho. “I saw the cops, and I saw the bike there. That’s when I got scared.”

“He’s like a brother to me,” Camacho said.

There were no witnesses to the shooting, but a man wearing a black tank top and black shorts was seen running from the park. The man then fled in a white Chrysler, officials said.

There were no immediate arrests.

Gonzalez said McLeod was a gang member who used to sell K2 in the park — and was robbed at gunpoint there a few weeks ago.