
A retired NYPD lieutenant blew away Rudy Wyatt, a Bloods gang member, as the suspect tried to gun down three police officers during a foot pursuit, sources said. Thomas Barnes, 48, was filling his tank at the BP station on East 119th Street and First Avenue at around 11 am when he saw gunman Rudolph Wyatt running from the store, and sprang into action. He crouched behind his hedge-fund boss' Mercedes SUV and squeezed off three shots, killing Wyatt, 23. The trigger-happy thug — wanted on warrants for two other shootings — lay dead in a pool of blood on the sidewalk wearing a black stocking mask with a wad of stolen cash spilling out of his pocket, witnesses said. "Part of the back of his head was missing. He had a large head wound and there was tons of blood," said witness John Brecevich, 59, owner of the Original Patsy's restaurant nearby. "It was a scene straight out of NYPD Blue." Wyatt squeezed the trigger three times while aiming at the cops, but his gun malfunctioned. A second suspect was briefly in custody, but escaped up First Avenue during the shootout, with a stash of the powerful painkillers Percocet and OxyContin. The mayhem began when Wyatt and his cohort burst into the Rx Center and demanded cash and the drugs — even specifying the 30-milligram dosage of the OxyContin pills, sources said. Inside the store were a manager, two employees, five customers and a baby in a stroller. A quick-thinking employee hit a panic button, and two female cops in a patrol car <b>...</b>
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