Cop killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley is taken to a hospital after shooting himself on Saturday
Hours before an increasingly disturbed drifter executed two city cops in cold blood, he confronted his ex-girlfriend and threatened to kill himself — before she talked him out of it and took a bullet herself.
The madman then set out on a cop-killing mission that ended with Saturday’s shocking bloodletting in Brooklyn.
More details emerged Monday about 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who cut short the lives of Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu before taking his own life.
The NYPD’s computer crime squad was compiling a profile of the killer — “and it’s quite scary,” said Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.
Shaneka Thompson/via Facebook Shaneka Thompson was shot in the abdomen by Ismaaiyl Brinsley before he headed to New York and killed two NYPD cops. “A lot of these things are self-despair, but they’re also anti-government,” Boyce said.
Some posts discussed burning the American flag and others complained about the plight of African-Americans. In his final Instagram posts, he made reference to Michael Brown and Eric Garner — unarmed men who were killed by police and whose deaths sparked months of rallies.
Among the thousands of images recovered from his phone was video of a protest in Union Square Park from earlier this month, “where he is a spectator watching one of the protests,” Boyce said.
“He is standing there like anybody else. Taking (pictures), watching the picture of an event go by, of a protest go by,” the chief added.
But there was scant mention of guns. And the former flame he seriously wounded, Shaneka Thompson, 29, told investigators she had never seen Brinsley with one.
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The silver pistol he used was purchased in 1996 at a Jonesboro, Ga., pawnshop, apparently by a straw buyer, sources said. It was unclear how and when Brinsley, who had a long history of arrests and mental illness, got his hands on the weapon.
He used it to pump four bullets into the heads of the officers as they sat in their car outside the Tompkins Houses. Cops believe he carried the gun inside a Styrofoam container that he kept in a plastic bag. He was seen with the bag in Atlantic Center Mall, which he reached by subway after getting to Midtown by a Bolt bus, and later had the same bag at the crime scene.
At 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Baltimore police became aware of Brinsley’s Instagram threat and called the 70th Precinct stationhouse in East Flatbush, where an officer initiated an intercity correspondence, officials said. But a fax with the suspect’s photo and information wasn’t received until a minute before the double murder.“There was no lapse on anybody’s part,” Boyce said.
The warning came after Brinsley’s near-fatal encounter with Thompson, an Air Force reservist who lives in Owings Mills, Md., outside Baltimore.
She then heard her yelling, “Don’t put me through this,” she recalled.
Her sister Angel Seay then saw the gunman run past her, looking confused and talking into a phone.
She said she would often hear jealous arguments between her neighbor and the man. The two had an on-again, off-again relationship.
Seay said she called 911 and help arrived after about seven minutes, while Thompson went outside her door, bloody and wearing pajamas.
“She was like, ‘I don’t wanna die! I don’t wanna die. I can’t die like this,’ ” Seay said.
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