Quick-thinking cop saves wounded pizzeria employee’s life

A hero cop used a tourniquet to save a Manhattan pizzeria employee who was shot by an attempted robber, cops said Wednesday.

The suspect barged into Tom’s Delicious Pizza on Broadway near Tiemann Place in Morningside Heights around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, police said. He then approached a 20-year-old employee, pulled a gun and tried to empty the cash register, cops said.

Then he allegedly shot the worker once in the upper left leg before bolting empty-handed into the nearby Grant Houses on West 125th Street, cops said.

The bullet hit a large artery in the victim’s thigh, police sources said.

Officer Joshua Escobar, of the 26th Precinct, rushed to the scene and used his department-issued tourniquet to help stop the bleeding, police said.

“Every day, cops make split second decisions that save lives,” the NYPD said in a tweet. “Great police work and training resulted in Officer Escobar from the @NYPD26Pct to apply his department-issued tourniquet and save the life of an assault victim in Harlem.”

Responding EMS workers took the worker to St. Luke’s Hospital in critical but stable condition.

Cops describe the alleged gunman as a black male who was last seen wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, a black jacket, blue jeans and white sneakers.