A boozed-up, former auxiliary police officer boasted that he was a cop and “was going to shoot somebody” before police opened fire on him in a brief standoff Saturday night in Queens, authorities said yesterday.
BB-gun-toting Luis Armando Dominguez, 49, had served as a auxiliary cop in the 105th Precinct in Queens in 1986, but was booted off the force a year later for unknown reasons, police said.
In Saturday night’s confrontation, the drunken man walked up to a stranger on the street and, waving a black pellet gun, said “he was going to shoot someone, and he is a police officer,” a law-enforcement source said.
The frightened person on the street called 911 and said there was a man with a gun at 137th Street and 264th Avenue in Rosedale.
When cops arrived at 8:40 p.m., another witness said she saw Dominguez point the gun at the police officers as they ordered him over the radio-car loudspeaker to drop it.
When Dominguez refused, he was shot twice in the stomach and the foot, officials said.
He was listed in critical but stable condition in Jamaica Hospital last night.
Dominguez was charged with menacing and criminal impersonation of a police officer, said a spokesman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.
Additional reporting by Cynthia R. Fagen