THIS DUDE WAS CRAZY! HE CALLS 911 & SAY'S HE'S READY TO KILL COPS! THEY END UP KILLING HIM!

A knife-wielding man with a death wish who called 911 ranting "I'm ready to kill some cops" was gunned down by police in front of his upper Manhattan home early Sunday.
Emmanuel Paulino, 24, shrugged off the Taser darts that cops first used outside his Inwood apartment building and lunged at officers, who fired at least nine times, killing him, police said.

"This is suicide by cop," a police source said last night.

In a transcript of the 911 call that set off the deadly early-morning confrontation, Paulino implored an operator to send police to his Vermilyea Ave. address.

"I'm ready to kill some cops right now," he told an operator.

The operator asked, "What's going on there?" Paulino repeated, "Yeah, I'm ready to kill cops right now" and demanded, "Okay, yeah, get 'em. ... I'll be right here."

Officers from the 34th Precinct showed up at Paulino's apartment building at 5:37 a.m. and found him in front brandishing a 4-inch knife.

"They're initially backing off," the source said of the responding cops. "He [Paulino] keeps coming, and he's saying, 'Shoot me in the head,' [or] words to that effect."

A police sergeant hit him with a Taser gun, but Paulino pulled the dartlike electrodes from his chest and kept charging, the source said.

"The darts went into him," another police source said. "He's being shocked at the time, and he pulls the darts out [and] continued toward the officers with the knife."

Two officers opened fire on Paulino with their guns as relatives and friends pleaded with him to drop the knife.

Paulino died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia. Police said the deadly shooting appeared to be justified.

Friends and relatives defended Paulino as harmless and accused the police of killing him for no reason.

"He was shot because of excessive force," said Alex Candelario, 27, a cousin. "He was a good kid, a humble guy. He didn't deserve this."

Friends said Paulino was unemployed and on anti-depressant medication.

Adding to the chaos was another 911 call simultaneously made by neighbors complaining of a rowdy party on Vermilyea Ave. near W. 207th St.

It was unclear if the two incidents were related.

At least six cops from the 34thPrecinct responded to the 911 calls, sources said.

"People were yelling in the streets and being crazy," said neighbor Jose Lopez, 38. "There's drugs and parties here every weekend."

Elisabeth Rodriguez, 28, said she was awakened by noise in the street and saw the standoff through the window of her first-floor apartment. "He [Paulino] was getting angrier and pacing around," she said. "He was walking in circles, not lunging."

Police said at least nine civilian witnesses backed up their account.

Paulino, who lived with his mother and sisters, was imprisoned after pleading guilty last year to importing heroin, and freed from prison in March, records show. The court recommended mental-health treatment for him in prison.