The driver who shuttled a carload of thugs to a Brooklyn drug-dealer robbery that turned into a cop killing claimed he left his house only to buy Baby Water for his daughter, as a jury began deliberating the fate of the man who gunned down the hero officer.
Alleged getaway driver Michael Velez, 22, testified that he didn’t know the four crooks he drove had crime on their minds, and that he never saw alleged shooter Lamont Pride, 28, holding a gun.
Velez and Pride both face murder charges for the December 2011 shooting of decorated Brooklyn cop Peter Figoski, who responded to the botched robbery.
“He said he was going to his uncle’s house to pick up some weed,” Velez said. “[He] didn’t say anything about a robbery.”
Velez also denied that Pride racked his gun in the car before the robbery, putting a bullet in the chamber, as a crook-turned-rat testified this week.
The admitted pot dealer claimed that he needed the Baby Water in the middle of the night because it has “nutrients” and that the crew ringleader called him after he had already left his home.
Pride’s jury will resume deliberations today.