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A veteran Brooklyn cop was killed yesterday when a crazed career thug shoved him off a brownstone stoop as the officer tried to cuff him, police said.
Officer Alain Schaberger, 42, was one of three cops from the 84th Precinct who first responded to a 4:22 a.m. call from a frantic woman at 334 Bergen St. in Boerum Hill.
“He said he’s across the street, and he’s going to kill me!” a panicked Kim Dykstra, 48, screamed to a 911 operator about her drunken boyfriend, George “Luigi” Villanueva, 40.
When police arrived, Villanueva, a petty thief with 28 prior arrests, had fled to his parents’ home at 45 St. Marks Place.
Cops brought Dykstra to that home to identify Villanueva, and as officers escorted him out, he went berserk, authorities said.
Schaberger and other cops tried to cuff the 5-foot-8, 160-pound thug on the stoop. That’s when Villanueva allegedly shoved the 5-foot-8, 180-pound Schaberger over the 18-inch-high metal railing and down the basement stairwell next to it.
“Officer Schaberger fell nine feet, striking his head on cement and landing feet up,” a grim-faced Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. The officer’s neck was broken in the plunge.
Schaberger’s colleagues twice Tasered the suspect, who had drained a dozen beers before his explosion. After being cuffed and put into a patrol car, the psycho perp tried to kick out one of the vehicle’s windows.
Schaberger was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where the 10-year NYPD veteran, who served four years in the Navy, was pronounced dead at 6:59 a.m.
Villanueva was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated murder of a police officer and assault. He was held without bail at his arraignment last night and faces life in prison without parole.
As he was led out of the 88th Precinct station house, he yanked his dark hoodie over his head and shouted to his brother, Daniel, who was waiting outside: “I need your number!”
Daniel later said of the struggle, “It became like a tug-of-war. The stoop is so small, you can’t fit a hundred cops here . . . It was an accident.”
Mayor Bloomberg met with the victim’s distraught father, Paul, and live-in girlfriend, Soshone Peguese, 45.
“He and his family made the ultimate sacrifice to keep our city safe,” Bloomberg said.
The cop’s shattered fiancee, Shoshone Peguese, vowed to attend perp George Villanueva’s trial.
Peguese told The Post this morning, “It’s hard without him here. If I had a chance to say anything to [Villanueva], I would tell him that he ruined a lot of lives.”
The pair planned to marry this summer.
At noon, NYPD officers lined up in front of the hospital to pay respects to their fallen comrade, who worked the midnight shift and had joined the 84th Precinct in 2006 after a stint at Midtown South.
As an ambulance drove off bearing his body, the officers saluted, some crying.
Grieving cops were furious that Villanueva was on the street after his most recent arrest on domestic-violence charges Feb. 4.
“The cop would be alive today if he had been in jail,” said one.
Another called Schaberger “a cop’s cop” and “the kind of guy who would go out of his way to help someone, be it another cop or a civilian.”
Villanueva had been busted on a charge of assaulting Dykstra in January, but was released last month after promising to appear in court.
His priors are mostly for robbery and burglary. He was apparently last in prison in 2009.
Additional reporting by Larry Celona, John Doyle, Frank Rosario, Kevin Fasick, C.J. Sullivan and Wilson Dizard