New York Post

Officer in window escapes from hub

- Joe Marino, Tina Moore, Amanda Woods

Police shot and wounded an enraged man who took his NYPD-cop wife’s gun in Queens and pulled it on her early Tuesday — prompting the woman to jump out the window to escape, authoritie­s and law-enforcemen­t sources said.

The off-duty officer — who works for the 101st Precinct — called 911 at around 9 a.m., reporting that her husband was menacing her with her own loaded gun in a home (above) at 130th Street and 133rd Avenue in Wakefield, sources said.

“You committed adultery, you cheated on me,” the husband admonished his wife while holding her at gunpoint, according to the sources.

“He’s pulled a gun on me,” the woman told the dispatcher. “He will shoot.”

Responding patrol officers knocked on the front door “and engaged the suspect in conversati­on, who threatened to shoot them,” Chief of Department Rodney Harrison said at a press conference.

The officers then backed out and called for the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, Harrison said. ESU cops arrived a few minutes later.

“While attempting to continue the dialogue, the suspect shot several times at those officers,” Harrison said. “During the standoff between the suspect and the police, the female involved was able to jump out of the second-floor window.”

The suspect then shot in his wife’s direction, as well as at the ESU officers, Harrison said. Officers returned fire.

The suspect, who was shot once in the right arm, was hospitaliz­ed and taken into custody. The woman was also taken to a hospital.

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