A Brooklyn sergeant involved in the fatal shooting of a distraught teen brandishing a hairbrush plays in a punk band called EDP – police parlance for an emotionally disturbed person.
Officer Carl Carrara, a 10-year veteran working out of the city’s troubled 79th Precinct, is the band’s singer and writes its material. EDP’s debut album is called “Next Stop: Bleaker Street.”
Carrara, 32, was one of five cops who fired 20 shots at Khiel Coppin, 18, as he emerged from his Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment Monday evening. They thought Coppin had a gun. It turned out to be the brush. Two of the other officers involved in the shooting told pals that they are broken up over the incident, but insisted that they did what they had to do, a union official said yesterday.
“They’re sad. They’re upset. They feel terrible. They both expressed sorrow that someone lost their life,” said Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association board member Richard Diana, who had spoken to Officers Keith Livingston and Gregory Scalcione.