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Cop ‘killer’ left trail of victims

Police displayed the gun (above) that was recovered from the scene where Officer Peter Figoski was killed yesterday.

Police displayed the gun (above) that was recovered from the scene where Officer Peter Figoski was killed yesterday. (AP)

DEADLY PATH: Lamont Pride (right) was jailed for armed robbery and was a suspect in a shooting in Greensboro, NC. Police displayed the gun (left) that was recovered from the scene where Officer Peter Figoski was killed yesterday. (AP)

Long before he was busted for allegedly killing a Brooklyn cop, Lamont Pride was already well-known as a lowlife.

The 27-year-old North Carolina native had been locked up for armed robbery and drug possession and was a suspect in an August shooting in his hometown of Greensboro.

He was most recently busted just last month, when authorities armed with a warrant found 10 bags of crack and pot in an apartment in Gravesend, Brooklyn, and arrested him for possession, sources said.

Two kids were in the filthy home at the time, garnering Pride an additional rap: child endangerment, the sources said.

At his Nov. 5 arraignment in Brooklyn, prosecutors set bail at $2,500, but Judge Evelyn LaPorte released him on his own recognizance, according to court records.

After North Carolina amended its warrant to allow extradition from New York, Pride was a no-show and cops were sent out to look for him, records show.

Pride now faces a murder charge for his alleged coldblooded execution of NYPD Officer Peter Figoski, who was shot in the face early yesterday trying to bust up a home invasion in Brooklyn.

GRAPHIC: HOW IT WENT DOWN

SINGLE-DAD COP GUNNED DOWN

HERO COP LIVED FOR HIS 4 CHILDREN

DEVASTATED PARTNER SPRANG INTO ACTION

POST LAUNCHES FUND FOR DAUGHTERS

Pride had an outstanding warrant against him at the time of yesterday’s gun-down, for aggravated assault tied to an Aug. 5 parking-lot shooting in Greensboro.

Police said Pride’s victim in that violence, Rayshawn Maberson, was shot in the leg while running away from a fight with a group of men that allegedly included Pride.

Pride has at least five unsealed previous arrests, mainly for selling and possessing drugs, police said.

He’s been a regular at the Guilford County Jail, where his stays date back to January 2006, when he was charged with marijuana possession. His rap sheet also boasts three jail stints in two months alone in North Carolina in 2009.

In March 2009, Pride was arrested for robbery with a deadly weapon.

Then, in September and October of that year, he went on a dizzying crime spree in which he was charged with armed robbery, kidnapping and aggravated assault.

Pride was ordered to serve 13 to 16 months behind bars after being convicted of robbery, but he was sprung in October 2010.

Sources said Pride had at least one accomplice with him during yesterday’s break-in at the Brooklyn apartment house.

The cohort, who police said had been scuffling with Figorski’s partner, Glenn Estrada, when Figoski was killed, remained at large.

A security-camera video released by the NYPD shows who cops believe to be that man briskly walking west along Fulton Street as an NYPD cruiser blows past him in the other direction, its lights flashing, minutes after the slaying.

The man can be seen in the video peering over his shoulder just before the police car passes.

Meanwhile, cops last night were grilling a third man who sources said has admitted at least being at the scene at the time of the deadly shooting and who also may have been part of the home invasion.