The Brooklyn thug whose botched beauty parlor robbery ended with an off-duty cop shooting the gun out of his hand faces 40 years to life in prison after his indictment on attempted murder charges, prosecutors revealed today.

Winston Cox’s October robbery attempt was foiled by officer Feris Jones, who was getting her hair done inside the Bed-Stuy salon. He ran from the scene dripping blood and cops followed the trail to his home in the Lafayette Gardens projects.

Prosecutors said Cox had two accomplices in the raid: Nefrititi Earl, who allegedly rang the beauty parlor’s buzzer so Cox could burst in, and Steven McLeod, 19, who allegedly supplied the gun Cox fired inside the salon.

Both Cox and McLeod made full confession, ADA Lewis Lieberman told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Allan Marrus at the men’s arraignment Tuesday.

“The people have a very strong case,” Lieberman said.

He said that in addition eliciting the confession, investigators recovered property from the robbery and Cox’s bloody clothing.

Investigators recovered two other guns, a bulletproof vest from McLeod, who supplied Cox with a gun on orders from other people, Lieberman said.

‘He said he was just holding the guns and the vest for Blaze, Smitty and Hipo,” court papers revealed.

McLeod was protective of his mother’s reputation, though.

“My mother did not know anything,” he said, according to court papers.