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Ismaaiyl Brinsley made a flurry of final phone calls before he gunned down two NYPD officers Saturday, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Brinsley, 28, had shot his ex-girlfriend in the stomach near Baltimore before hopping a Bolt bus to New York with her stolen cellphone, the sources said.
He arrived on West 34th Street in Manhattan four hours before the 2:47 p.m. shooting, and traveled by subway up to 42nd Street, then reached the Atlantic Terminal Mall in Brooklyn at around 12:07 p.m., police said.
He used the cellphone to call his estranged mother and sister, as well as a friend from jail and a woman he knew from Brooklyn, sources said.
A surveillance image of him making one of the calls is the last known photo of him.
Brinsley ditched the phone behind a radiator, strolled to the Marcy Houses in Bed-Stuy and shot the officers a block away on Tompkins Avenue near Myrtle Avenue.
Investigators are now following the money trail after Brinsley, 28, got change for a $100 bill in Maryland before fleeing to New York, police sources said.
“Where did he get his money, who does he hang out with?” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said on CBS’s “This Morning,” referring to Brinsley as a “couch crasher.”



