The 34-year-old man who shot an NYPD veteran in the head early Wednesday was a drifter whose rap sheet included a 2001 bust for beating up a cop in Queens, police sources said.
Alexander Bonds allegedly used brass knuckles to pummel the cop from the 111th Precinct. Four others joined in on the beating, sources said.
The outcome of that case was not immediately known.
Bonds was paroled in 2013 for a robbery in Syracuse when he shot Miosotis Familia, 48, in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx.
State Department of Correction records show that he served six years and 10 months of an eight-year sentence.
The 12-year department veteran later died after under going surgery.
Bonds had other arrests between 2000 and 2002, mostly for drugs.
His most recent collar in New York City was in 2005 but it was not immediately clear on what charges.
Sources said Bonds had addresses all over the area, including in the Bronx, Queens and several homeless shelters.
Neighbors at Bonds’ home on Rev. James A. Polite Avenue in the Bronx said they tried to stay far away from the cop killer.
“He is scary! He looks crazy! I never talk to him but he talks to me. He always asks if I will get with one of his friends. He was always outside with his friends,” said Alliya Merin, 15, who lives across the street.
“Someone was killed in front of his door last year. I am scared of him and his friends. All of them scare me. They sell drugs. He tells the others where to go and deliver.”
Supermarket manager Alvaro Kidd, 33, said he last saw Bonds on Tuesday night around 7:30 p.m.
“He was just drinking beers on the corner with his friends,” Kidd said. “I never talk to him. He hangs out with scary people.”