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LI man shoots girlfriend in fight over zombies

A seething Long Island fan obsessed with “The Walking Dead” shot his girlfriend because she told him there’s no way a zombies apocalypse could happen, cops said today.

Jared Gurman, 26, was getting a ride home from a bar Sunday night from gal pal Jessica Gelderman, 27, when they argued over his wild belief that the undead will overrun America — like on his favorite show, police said.

“It’s something that he felt can possibly happen,” Nassau police Det. Lt. Ray Cote said. “She said that’s ridiculous.”

She dropped him off at his Williston Park home and left at 2 a.m., but police said he began sending her hostile texts.

One read, ”My gun is loaded, don’t come here, I’m very angry,” law enforcement sources said.

A worried Gelderman raced back to his home, where Gurman allegedly shot her once in the back with a rifle, fracturing her ribs and puncturing her lung and diaphragm, police said.

“I was just being an asshole. I told her to get out of here. I gave an angry jolt with the gun, pointing it straight at her and fired one shot,” Gurman explained in a statement to cops.

He’s being held without bail, charged with attempted murder, while Gelderman is in stable condition.

The suspect claims they’ve been dating for 3 ½ years and were planning to go on a Caribbean cruise in February.

In his statement to police, Gurman said he struggles to cope with reality: “I am paranoid when I drink and when I am sober.”

“My girlfriend … knows I have all these feelings and she tries to help me with them,” Gurman wrote in his statement.

The alleged gunman, who claims to work as a country club cook on his Facebook page, said he also struggles with his self-worth: “I feel like I am an underappreciated person. I shold be making more money at work. I also feel like I am paranoid.”

Gurman is set to be arraigned tomorrow in Mineola.

“The Walking Dead” fan apparently believes a secret government experiment might go haywire and trigger the undead’s birth across the land.

“He said some kind of government testing went wrong and this would be the outcome,” Ray said.

A lawyer for Gurman did not return messages today.

Additional reporting by David K. Li