A police officer yesterday shot and seriously wounded a scissors-wielding man who attacked his girlfriend in an apartment across the street from Brooklyn Tech HS, authorities said.
The unidentified officer was walking to traffic court at about 3:20 p.m. when he was flagged down on Fulton Street by a frantic 39-year-old woman, cops said.
She asked him to follow her to her second-floor apartment on Fort Greene Place, police added.
When they arrived, the woman’s 260-pound boyfriend, Keary Green, was holding scissors to his throat, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.
Green, 40, then ran out, tossed the woman to the ground and “was about to lunge at her with the scissors” when the cop fired twice, hitting Green in the torso and leg, Browne said.
Green underwent surgery at Kings County Hospital and is listed in critical condition. The officer went to Methodist Hospital with ringing in his ears.
Green has a history of psychiatric problems, said a law-enforcement source, and neighbors knew him to be violent.
“He was crazy! She was afraid of him,” said a long-time resident, who had been told the woman had an order of protection against Green.
“He was physically, mentally, verbally abusive. He looked crazy . . . like he shouldn’t be on the streets.”
The neighbor added that Green’s girlfriend worked in the court system as a stenographer.
As police swarmed the scene, Brooklyn Tech students were dismissed from an exit around the block.
Additional reporting by Amy Stretten and C.J. Sullivan