Cops shot two men Sunday, one fatally, after the suspects threatened them in separate incidents, police said.
Officers first opened fire on a man who pointed a gun at them outside an East Harlem housing complex early Sunday, officials said. The suspect was in critical condition and in police custody at New York Hospital, where he was taken after the 2 a.m. shooting.
Then, on Sunday night, Brooklyn cops shot and killed a man — suspected of stabbing his girlfriend — after he lunged at them with a pair of scissors, authorities said.
In the earlier shooting, officers were responding to a call about an unruly crowd, which included a man who may have had a gun.
When they approached the group, the suspect took off, fleeing along Lexington Avenue, police said. He then turned onto East 102nd and ran east, they said.
Cops were closing in when he suddenly stopped, drew a gun and turned around, authorities said.
Several witnesses said that the suspect, later identified as Michael Schultz, 23, was trying to throw the gun away when he was shot.
Two officers opened fire, hitting Schultz several times. Investigators recovered a .22-caliber revolver at the scene.
“The guy ran from the cops and pulled a gun,” witness Manuel Mantilla, 38, told The Post. “The cops opened fire. You pull a gun on a cop, that’s what happens.”
Schultz’s sister, Monet, 25, insisted her brother has never been in trouble — despite prior arrests for criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of marijuana, according to cops.
“I’m trying to understand what happened,” she said. “He’s not a trouble kid. He’s never been to jail. ”
He faces charges, including attempted assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon.
Hours later, at 8:30 p.m., cops shot and killed the man who came at them with scissors, police said.
The unidentified 31-year-old man had earlier attacked his girlfriend in their Prospect Lefferts Gardens apartment.
Police found a knife in the apartment where the woman, 38, was stabbed in the chest.
She was in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.
The shootings come two days after police fatally gunned down a drugstore thief on the FDR Drive.
Scott Kato, 45, had been trying to escape onto the highway after sticking up a pharmacy, and he got stuck in traffic at East 96th Street.
Four cops approached his black Jeep and opened fire when he pulled out his weapon, sources said.
Additional reporting by Frank Rosario