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WOUNDED SI GURU SUES GAL

A commune co-founder nearly killed when he was shot on the stairwell of his Staten Island compound filed a $10 million lawsuit yesterday against the woman acquitted in the attack.

Jeffrey Gross brought the action against Rebekah Johnson, who in August was found not guilty of attempted murder in the 2006 shooting at the 80-member Ganas commune.

The jury deliberated only five hours.

“I’m doing this to protect myself and other people – the public,” Gross said on the steps of Staten Island Supreme Court.

“She is obviously willing to murder, and it makes sense to her. Who is to say that if she rubs shoulders with someone the wrong way, she won’t do this again?”

Gross was shot six times at night with a .380 handgun by a shooter who stepped over his body before walking away.

Gross told cops Johnson was the shooter, but the defense said it was too dark and he couldn’t make a positive identification.

Johnson was captured last summer in Philadelphia after she used her name to register a used car. In his suit, Gross portrays Johnson as an angry woman who had been evicted from the commune twice.

He claimed she made up allegations that he abused commune members to tarnish his image, stalked him, and then ambushed him as he walked home from the movies.

perry.chiaramonte@nypost.com