He avoided getting axed — only to quit in disgrace.
One of the Brooklyn cops who refused to enter the bloody apartment where an ax murderer left a woman nearly decapitated has resigned from the NYPD, authorities said Thursday.
Officer Sean Doohan stepped down on April 27, less than a week after he and fellow Officer Mary Sobieski were suspended for failure to take appropriate action, officials said.
Doohan, who had only about a year on the job, resigned even though investigators had yet to formally question him or Sobieski, police sources said.
One source suggested Doohan quit before he could be fired.
“He was going to get charges,” the source said. “Resigning will allow him to get another law-enforcement job.”
Sobieski is already back at work, sources said.
She could still potentially face discipline when internal investigators dig into her and Doohan’s alleged inaction during the April 20 incident.
The 83rd Precinct cops answered a call to find Angela Valle gushing blood from a head wound she suffered when her ax-wielding ex, Jerry Brown, allegedly attacked her and pal Savannah Rivera in Valle’s Flushing Avenue apartment.
Valle, 21, pleaded with the cops to go into the Bushwick Houses unit to check on Rivera — as well as Valle’s 4-year-old daughter, who was asleep in a back room when Brown burst in.
But Sobieski and Doohan balked at the request, protesting that the public- housing complex is the responsibility of cops assigned to Police Service Area 3, sources have said.
They also blew off an FDNY EMS lieutenant who asked for an escort into the apartment in case Brown was still lurking, sources said.
Doohan on Thursday referred comment to his lawyer, Greg Longworth.
“Although my client is separated from the department, he is limited by the same parameters of the NYPD and we have no comment at this juncture,” Longworth said.
Additional reporting by Shari Logan