Dramatic video footage from a Brooklyn nightclub shows a bouncer waving a gun toward police and a cop tripping and falling to the floor moments before his partner squeezes off a single round, killing the bouncer, police said yesterday.
Kevin White — who had worked as a bodyguard for Jay-Z, Mariah Carey and Diddy — was shot in the neck by a plainclothes cop responding to a report of a melee at the Norwood Palace in Cypress Hills early Sunday.
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said it wasn’t clear from the video whether White, 43, fired a shot before he was hit.
The cops had just wounded gunman Donovan Wilson, 19, outside the club when they went in and confronted White.
But White’s cousin, retired police Detective Derek Wright, 45, said patrons told him that White had wrestled the gun from a patron and was putting it down when he was shot.
“My cousin wasn’t an angel,” Wright said. “He spent a lot of time in jail. But in the last couple of years, he’d been getting his life together.”