The Brooklyn man who reportedly shot a police officer in the back on Christmas Eve – but didn’t injure his target thanks to a bulletproof vest – offered a feeble apology when he was taken to court on Friday.
“I’m sorry, officer,” William Moss murmured from behind a blue face mask when asked by The Post if he had a message for Connor Boalick, the cop whose life he was about to end.
“I wish it never happened.”
Handcuffed and wearing a gray Nike hoodie, Moss expressed sudden regret when he was taken to the Brooklyn Criminal Court to hear charges including attempted murder and sexual assault.
Moss, 20, is said to have fired two bullets in the back of Boalick around 9 p.m. on Thursday, as the officer was recording a statement from Moss’s girlfriend, police and sources said.
Boalick and his partner were initially called to the Bergen Street and Ralph Avenue scene in Crown Heights because the woman accused Moss of threatening to shoot her house, police and sources say.
Thanks to his body armor, Boalick, 27, escaped the cowardly assault from behind virtually unharmed and even left Kings County Hospital on Christmas morning.
Expressing his gratitude that Boalick lived to tell the story, Pat Lynch, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, said at the hospital that lawmakers should help create a pro-cop climate where criminals fear the consequences of shooting. on the Finest.
Save a subpoena for smoking marijuana, according to police and sources, Moss had never crossed the paths of the NYPD before.
He is expected to be charged on Christmas night.