An armed rapist was fatally shot in the head by an NYPD officer after he repeatedly threatened “I have a gun” as they tried to take him into custody in the Bronx early Thursday, police said.
Lucien Colon, 44, started wielding the firearm when members of the Bronx Warrant Squad showed up at his apartment in Mott Haven to nab him on an outstanding sex offender warrant, according to cops.
Officers found the convicted sex pest sitting on a bed after being let into the apartment by a woman at about 6:45 a.m., the NYPD said.
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