NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Studio of perp Edgar Owens, 46, from a prior arrest. Authorities say MTA Police Officer John Barnett, 45, was stabbed on the face by Owens in Queens.
Bleeding from his eye, an MTA police officer took aim at a knife-wielding cop-hater who had just stabbed him — and then fired four times as the man lunged at him again.
Despite his pain and impaired vision, three of the bullets found their mark — killing the deranged suspect and ending a holiday horror outside an LIRR station in Queens.
Officer John Barnett, who has served in Afghanistan with the Navy Reserves, was then rushed into surgery at Jamaica Hospital with a “devastating” wound.
“He said he was going to go into surgery as a fighter and was going to come out as a fighter,” said the brave cop’s sister, Belinda Barnett-Andrea. “He loves serving his country. It’s ironic that today is the Fourth of July.”
Five hours later, Barnett, 45, was out of the operating room, where surgeons found the knife went in just below his eyelid and could have penetrated his brain.
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