Metro

Cop shoots man near Brooklyn Technical High School after he lunged at him with scissors

A cop shot and seriously wounded a scissors-wielding man attacking his girlfriend in an apartment across the street from Brooklyn Technical HS today, 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, who asked him to follow her to her nearby apartment y at 48 Fort Greene Place, police said.

When the cop and she went to the second-floor apartment and opened the door, her hulking, 260-pound boyfriend Keary Greene ran out and threw her to the ground, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.

Greene, 40, “was about to lunge at her with the scissors” when the cop fired twice, hitting Green in the torso and leg, Browne said.

Green was rushed in critical condition to Kings County Hospital, where he was undergoing surgery. The officer was taken to Methodist Hospital with ringing in his ears.

Green has a history of psychiatric problems, according to a law-enforcement source.

“All I heard was a gunshot,” said Thomas McCormick, who lives several doors away from 48 Fort Greene Place. “I looked out the window, and the whole block was locked down. They dragged someone into an ambulance, and they took off down the block.”

Residents of the block described Green as violent, and said his girlfriend lived in the building where he was shot.

“He was crazy! She was afraid of him,” said a long-time resident of the block about Green and his girlfriend.. “He looked crazy . . . like he shouldn’t be on the streets.

“She always looked scared,” said the resident about Green’s girlfriend.

“He was physically, mentally, verbally abusive. She know him from living on Long Island,” the resident said. “I think they went to high school together. She knew him for some time . . . I think he tried to reel her back or something. He was just an abusive guy. He just looked crazy!”

Students from Brooklyn Technical were being dismissed from the school at the exit a block away from the shooting scene.

Additional reporting by Kirstan Conley, Amy Stretten, Amber Sutherland and C.J. Sutherland