Police have charged the alleged accomplice in a botched carjacking of a retired NYPD detective that left a would-be thief dead in Brooklyn.
Rashawn Thompson,18, was the lookout in the carjacking when his uncle, Manuel Ocampo approached the unsuspecting victim, Derrick Bishop,55, a retired NYPD detective, cops said.
Bishop was working the graveyard security shift outside of a bottling company before the thugs tried to rob him on the corner of Georgia Avenue and Linden Boulevard around 3:15 a.m., Tuesday, according to police.
Ocampo pointed a pistol at Bishop and demanded cash, cops said.
“I looked at him, and I see his hands and see he has a .9mm pointed at my face,” a shaken Bishop recalled, speaking to reporters outside his Brooklyn home. “Then he told me he’s going to blow my brains out, he would shoot me in the face if I didn’t hand him my money.”
“I thought I was gonna die in the car at that time,” Bishop said, wiping away tears. “I didn’t want to die. I wanted to be able to see my kids and my wife.”
Bishop was able to pull out his glock and fired four shots striking Ocampo in the chest and neck, cops said.
He was found unconscious and unresponsive with the gun still in his hand, police sources said.
Thompson ran home to his mother and she called police who then took him into custody after linking him to the crime scene.
He later admitted to police he tried to get into the vehicle after Ocampo forced Bishop out of the driver’s seat at gunpoint.
Thompson has been charged with first degree robbery, cops said.
He had one prior arrest but it was sealed.