Metro

NYPD officers could face criminal charges in Bx. shooting

Two cops could face criminal charges for the fatal shooting of an unarmed teen drug suspect in The Bronx, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday.

The officer who fired the shot and his sergeant were stripped of their guns and badges and placed on desk duty while the Internal Affairs Bureau investigated the deadly shooting of 18-year-old Ramarley Graham.

“We are still evaluating the actions here,” the commissioner said. “The evidence will be presented to a grand jury.”

Kelly was clearly troubled by the cops’ actions.

“We see an unarmed person being shot. That always concerns us,” Kelly said. “The fact is that a young man’s life was taken.”

Around 3 p.m. Thursday a six-officer street narcotics team saw Graham and two cohorts make a drug deal at a bodega on East 228th Street in Wakefield, according to police.

As the team tailed the trio, its members made two radio transmissions on the issue of whether Graham was armed.

“The first is, ‘He may have a gun.’ Then they state that they see a gun,” Kelly said.

Graham and the other suspects entered a building at 728 East 229th St.

When Graham emerged alone, a witness said she heard two cops say, “Police! Don’t move!”

Graham then ran into 749 East 229th St., where he lived with his family in a second-floor apartment.

One police source said Graham may have ditched the gun while running toward the house and someone else scooped it up.

As three cops burst into that apartment, they saw Graham run from a bedroom to a bathroom.

According to Kelly’s account, as Graham tried to flush drugs down the toilet, one of the officers yelled: “Show me your hands! Show me your hands! Gun! Gun!”

That officer, who a law-enforcement source said was white, then shot Graham with his 9 mm Glock. Graham was hit below the left clavicle. He was declared dead at Montefiore Hospital.

No gun was recovered.

Graham’s family was still furious yesterday.

“They think the badge they carry on their chest gives them the right to kill,” Graham’s brother, Delmar Scott, said, adding that Graham “don’t carry no weapons.”

Last night, about 200 friends and neighbors marched from Graham’s home to the 47th Precinct station house to protest the shooting.

Additional reporting by Jamie Schram