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NYPD body cam shows point-blank Bronx gun battle with ex-con susp

- BY ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA

Dramatic video released by the NYPD on Tuesday shows a Bronx cop exchanging fire with a gunman from no more than 3 feet away.

Officer Lewellyn Alvarez somehow avoided getting struck in the May 19 incident. Suspect Calvin Peterkin, 39, got away despite three gunshot wounds.

Peterkin, who has served state prison time for robbery, was later nabbed and charged with attempted murder, gun possession and menacing.

Alvarez and his partner, Officer Imran Alli, both in uniform, confronted Peterkin after someone called 911 to report a man with a gun inside a Boost Mobile store on E. 174th St. and Vyse Ave. in Morrisania, police said Tuesday

Video from inside the shop shows Peterkin minutes earlier threatenin­g an employee with a gun, with the employee trying to calm him down.

When the cops arrived Peterkin came to the store entrancewa­y asking what he had done. The interactio­n was captured on the officers’ bodyworn cameras.

“I didn’t even do nothing,” Peterkin said, running past Alli, darting across the street and disappeari­ng behind a parked Mr. Softee truck with its instantly recognizab­le tune playing.

As Alli gave chase, Alvarez ran to the front of the truck, cutting off the gunman.

“Put it down!” Alvarez yelled at Peterkin. “Put it down!”

Instead, police said, Peterkin fired twice at Alvarez from his 9-mm. gun.

Alvarez, no more than 3 feet away at that point, fired five times at the shooter, police said.

Alli fired three times from what appeared to be at least 50 feet away. A woman was to his left and a man to his right, but they were not in the line of fire.

Peterkin got away, running down Vyse Ave. and ditching his gun under a parked vehicle, cops said.

He was arrested five days later and taken to BronxCare Health System for treatment of his gunshot wounds. He was shot in the left arm and right hand, police said, and was grazed in the chest.

The NYPD’s Force Investigat­ion Division is conducting a probe of the shooting.

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NYPD body camera shows frightenin­g May 19 faceoff between cop and shooter (also below) in the Bronx.

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