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An ex-con involved in a shootout with Brooklyn cops did not fire the shot that killed a woman sitting with her daughter on her stoop, the NYPD said yesterday, increasing the likelihood that she was struck by an officer’s bullet.
The dramatic finding contradicts what cops and Mayor Bloomberg claimed right after the Monday night mayhem — that Denise Gay was killed by her career-criminal Crown Heights neighbor, LeRoy Webster.
The 9 mm Ruger semiautomatic pistol used by Webster, 32, did not match the bullet that killed the 56-year-old Gay, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.
He could not say definitively that the bullet came from a police weapon, but noted that distinctive markings on the bullet are “consistent” with the Glocks used by two of the eight officers who fired at Webster.
Those cops fired a total of 15 rounds during the gunfight.
Asked if police could conduct ballistics tests on the two Glocks to determine which one fired the bullet that killed Gay, Browne said, “No.”
Witnesses claimed that a man initially shot by Webster, 29-year-old Eusi Johnson, was carrying a gun when he was killed, but “no weapon associated with Johnson was recovered,” Browne said.
Police said witnesses, including Gay’s daughter Tashmaya, initially told cops the woman was killed by Webster.
Asked about that claim, Tashmaya, 20, said she only told cops, “I seen him shooting,” and added “The cops killed my mother.”
Tashmaya said her mother pushed her and others out of the way when the gunfire erupted.
Police recovered fragments of the round that hit Denise from the hoodie she was wearing.
“It was the cops,” Tashmaya said. “My mother got hit by a bullet that wasn’t even meant for her. Just for sitting on her stoop.”
Tashmaya said “there’s no way in hell” that Webster could have shot her mother, because he was exchanging fire with cops across the street while standing two doors down from their home.
Webster was shot by the cops, and remained in critical condition in Kings County Hospital yesterday.
Tashmaya said the cops involved “should be fired. They should be in jail.”
One of the cops who fired a Glock was Officer Avichaim Dicken, 29, who suffered a graze wound in the firefight. He fired 10 rounds, authorities said.
The other officer who was using a Glock during the firefight has not been identified.
The second officer injured in the incident, Omar Medina, 35, fired a total of 16 rounds from his Smith & Wesson pistol.
Medina was hit in the face and leg by bullet fragments.
Additional reporting by Jamie Schram, Doug Auer and Larry Celona