Dramatic video captures the frantic moments when two Brooklyn cops jump out of their patrol car and chase a gunman, firing 19 shots and wounding him.
The Aug. 12 shooting happened at 7:30 p.m. on Ocean Ave. near Church Ave. in Flatbush.
Police said Aaron Richard, 35, punched Edynesson Bauduy, 22, in the face, sparking a gunfight, with Bauduy firing first and Richard shooting back. Neither gunman, both ex-cons, were struck in the exchange.
Meanwhile, two 70th Precinct cops on patrol nearby, Officers Christopher Lopez and Maxima Ortiz-Bonilla, heard the gunfire and quickly responded to the scene. Richard had taken off by then, police said that day, but Bauduy was still there.
Body-cam footage shows the officers chasing Bauduy. At one point, Lopez can be heard yelling, “Get down!”
It’s not clear if the cop was yelling to a passerby or to Bauduy, who was still armed, nor is it clear from the video if Bauduy pointed his gun at the officers as he ran off.
Within 12 seconds of the cops getting out of their car, the incident was over, with Bauduy shot in the leg after Lopez fired at him 16 times and Ortiz-Bonilla firing at him three times.
Bauduy and Richard, who was arrested later, were charged by the feds.
Richard was recently paroled in April after serving two years in state prison for a Brooklyn hate-crime assault.
Bauduy was paroled in June after serving time for robbery and for a shooting, police said.
The video was posted on the NYPD’s YouTube page on Saturday. The department’s Force Investigation Division will assess the actions of both officers.
Lopez and Ortiz-Bonilla joined the NYPD together, in December 2021. The NYPD would not say if either previously had been involved in a shooting.