WTF! BROOKLYN MAN LOSES IT! COPS FIND HIM NAKED HOLDING HIS BABY & A BURNING CHRISTMAS TREE!

A crazed cousin of Romona Moore - whose rape and murder shocked the nation in 2003 - got into a scary standoff with cops Friday, holding his baby in one hand and swinging part of a burning Christmas tree in the other, sources said.

The 2-month-old boy, Tredon, escaped with a broken arm after cops subdued his naked father, 26-year-old Trevor Mann, cops said.

The drama started at 11:23 p.m. when an off-duty cop saw the hulking Mann run a red light at a Flatbush, Brooklyn, intersection and smash his Nissan car into a van.

Mann fled on foot, and the quick-thinking officer discreetly followed him for about six blocks, a source said. Mann finally entered his Brooklyn Ave. home during a family gathering.

Five relatives, including the baby's mother, poured out of the house, telling the cop that Mann was raving inside with the boy, police said. More uniformed officers soon arrived and called Emergency Service Units.

The 6-foot, 300-pound Mann, pacing between the home and front stoop, threatened to harm the infant if cops didn't leave. At one point, the deranged father came out holding the baby - both of them naked.

Cops watched through the window as Mann broke off part of a Christmas tree and ignited it.

"He holds the baby in one hand and swings the Christmas tree that's on fire," a source said.

That's when cops entered the house through the rear door and front window.

"The baby's screaming, a struggle ensues," said the source.

"I saw the commotion," said neighbor Cherifia Townsend, 30, who watched the events unfold from her window. "I smelled smoke. I saw him run out of the house."

Police managed to free the baby, who suffered a broken left arm and lacerations, and rushed him to the hospital. Two officers were treated for injuries.

Mann lives in the same Brooklyn Ave. home that his late cousin, Romona Moore, stepped out of just hours before she was abducted in April 2003.

The 21-year-old Hunter College student was kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered. Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson were convicted of the girl's death and sentenced to life in jail.

Elle Carmichael - Moore's mother - filed a $1 million lawsuit against the city, claiming the NYPD failed to investigate the young woman's disappearance because she was black. The suit's status was unavailable last night.

A family member reached at the Brooklyn Ave. home confirmed Mann put flyers up in the neighborhood when Moore went missing, but declined to comment on his recent behavior. "This is a different story," the woman said.

Mann was taken to the psych ward of Kings County Hospital. He faces a litany of charges, including felony assault, arson, assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.


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