A suspected car thief shot by cops in a Brooklyn housing project Thursday night was an ex-con who fired twice at officers during a foot chase, police said yesterday.
Dahan Sam, 29, fell while hopping a chain-link fence at 225 Havemeyer St., near the Williams Plaza Houses, in Williamsburg and pulled a 9mm pistol, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
He fired two rounds at the officers, a 36-year-old cop and a detective sergeant, 48, and both shot back from four feet away, Kelly said.
“I heard 10 shots — lots of shots — quickly. I heard the cops say, ‘Get down! Get down!’ ” recalled Aaron Kinard, 24, a resident. “They rushed toward the guy who got shot. He was on his stomach.”
The cop fired twice and the detective sergeant seven times, Kelly said.
Both cops have been involved in prior shootings.
In 1992, the detective sergeant was in a gunfight with five suspects in Queens, but no one was hit. The other cop shot a dog after it attacked him in a Bed-Stuy housing project.
Sam suffered nine wounds to his hip, arm and chest. It wasn’t clear how many were entrance or exit wounds. He was in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital.
Sam had been spotted driving an SUV that had been stolen in East New York on Oct. 5, Kelly said.
Police were pursuing him when he ditched the SUV at Kent Avenue and Broadway and fled on foot, officials said.
A passenger in the SUV, which had North Carolina plates, remained and wasn’t charged, police said.
Cops radioed for help, and other officers encountered Sam, authorities said.
Sam’s illegal gun was traced to North Carolina, Kelly said.
Sam served seven years in a Pennsylvania prison for a stabbing and chain attack in 2001, Kelly said. He also was busted for assault in 2011 and drug sales last July.
He was charged in Thursday’s shootout with attempted murder of police officers and gun possession.