Hero cops stop teen from shooting himself at last possible moment

Two fast-acting cops stopped a suicidal teen just seconds before he blew himself away during a dramatic encounter in Manhattan Monday evening, according to police.

Officers were first called to a complex on Nagel Avenue, near Academy Street, in Inwood just after 5 p.m. by the teen’s concerned mother, Deputy Inspector Peter Andrea of the 34th Precinct told The Post Tuesday.

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“Basically, she states that he made threats toward her… But he is not violent and he may have a powerful weapon in a bag,” Andrea said.

But when the officers turned the corner in the stairwell on the third floor, the 19-year-old was sitting on the stairs with a shotgun barrel to his chin and his finger on the trigger.

One officer reached for the barrel, but the teen stepped back, according to Andrea.

As that officer tried to calm the teen down, the other cop snatched the shotgun away from the teen’s chin just as he pulled the trigger.

“It happened in a manner of five seconds,” Andrea said after reviewing the body camera footage. “They got to the corner, you see the [teen] with a shotgun to his chin, and, immediately, the officers grab the shotgun away from his head and it goes off.

“I’m very proud of what they did and I think it was very heroic.”

The teen, whose name was not released, was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, according to cops.