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Harrowing new video captures cops exchanging gunfire with an armed robbery suspect in the Bronx — as ice cream truck music plays in the background.

The bodycam footage, released by the NYPD on Tuesday, shows 39-year-old suspect Calvin Peterkin breaking free from Officers Lewellyn Alvarez and Imran Alli and taking off down East 174th Street on May 19.

The cops had been trying to take Peterkin into custody, after he allegedly stuck up a Boost Mobile store.

The officers are seen in the footage chasing after the fleeing suspect through the East Morrisania neighborhood while a nearby ice cream truck plays its jingle.

Peterkin can be seen running with a gun in his right hand as Alvarez catches up to him and yells, “Put it down!,” the video shows.

The robbery suspect then fires twice at the officer.

Alvarez and Alli return fire, squeezing off a total of eight rounds, striking Peterkin in the left arm and right hand and grazing his chest, according to police.

A Kel Tec PF-9 9mm was found on Peterkin, cops said.

Peterkin faces a slew of charges, including attempted murder, reckless endangerment and various weapons charges, cops said.

He is being held without bail, court records show.

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