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Investigators are trying to find out out whether the bullet that fatally wounded a woman outside her Crown Heights home after the West Indian Day Parade Sunday night was fired by a cop or the killer the officers had been firing at.
Denise Gay—who had made a point of avoiding the Labor Day festival because of its reputation for violence—was cut down on the stoop of her home, where she was sitting with her 20-yea-rold daughter.
She was days away from her 57th birthday.
“What we found in Ms. Gay’s sweatshirt hoodie, there appears to be the brass tip of a round that could belong to either the police or perp gun,” said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.
But Gay’s daughter and two witnesses told cops they saw career criminal Leroy Webster point his gun in the direction of the victim before they heard a shot and saw her fall, a source said.
Both the cops and Webster—who authorities said had just murdered another man—were using weapons that take the same caliber bullet.
Two cops were hurt in the fusillade, in which officers fired 73 rounds.
Ironically, Gay “didn’t care too much for the parade,” said her shattered sister, Barbara, and always avoided it.
“She wouldn’t have wanted to get messed up with it,” she said.
“She always sat on the stoop, admiring her garden.”
Cops had been called to her home on Park Place when witnesses saw Webster pull a gun on Usie Johnson.
Webster fatally shot Johnson, authorities said, then opened fire on responding cops, injuring officers Avichaim Dicken, 24, and Omar Medina, 35.
Both officers were released from Brookdale Hospital yesterday after treatment.
Webster was in critical condition yesterday at Kings County Hospital.
Additional reporting by Doug Auer