A motorist in a car with a female cop was shot to death by an NYPD detective on the Grand Central Parkway early Thursday, sources told the Daily News.
The driver was reaching for a motorized screw gun under the seat when he was fatally shot, cops said.
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The suspect did not fire, and it was unclear if he was armed.
It wasn't immediately clear what the officer was doing in the Honda, but she had been the subject of NYPD disciplinary action and was on restricted duty, the sources said.
"She says she was sleeping and that she was woken up by the shot," a source said.
The driver and the cop were the only two people in the car when the confrontation unfolded near LaGuardia Airport at 5:05 a.m.
The incident began when when two police Emergency Service Unit vehicles tried to get around the Honda, which was driving erratically in the eastbound lanes by the 94th St. overpass near Exit 7.
The ESU vehicles were unmarked and carrying a team of officers supporting a warrants squad unit picking up suspects, sources said.
Unable to get around the Honda, the ESU officers pulled the vehicle over and one officer, identified by police sources as Detective Hassan Hamdy, went to speak with with driver, sources said.
When the driver suddenly reached down, Hamdy opened fire, hitting the man in the abdomen. The tool is used to sink screws, sources said.
The wounded driver was taken to New York Hospital Queens in Flushing where he died.
Hamdy was treated for psychological trauma and released.
"He's a little shaken up," a source said.
The names of the driver and the female cop were not immediately released.
After the deadly shooting, the Honda — its four doors open wide — was cordoned off by police, forcing two lanes of eastbound traffic to be closed off and creating a traffic nightmare during the morning rush hour.
A construction worker who was starting a job on the overpass said he heard the gunfire.
"I heard one 'pop,' a single shot," said the worker, who declined to give his name. "I don't know who shot who."
This highway has been the scene of a previous police-involved shooting.
In 1989, two NYPD detectives, Richard Guerzon and Keith Williams, were shot dead by a prisoner in their car as they drove on the westbound side of the parkway at 88th St. The suspect, en route to Rikers, had stolen the murder weapon from an unsecured police locker.
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