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New bodycam videos released by cops Thursday shows the moment an armed gunman — suspected of killing a rival gang member just moments before — is shot down by police in the East Village in January.

The pair of recordings shows Officers Liam Murphy and Christopher Mclaughlin get out of their patrol car at the northwest corner of East Seventh Street and Avenue A on Jan. 9 and order 37-year-old Earl Facey to get down on the ground.

Facey — who police say had just shot dead 41-year-old Richard Reid following a bottle-throwing spat inside Hayaty Lounge hookah bar around 3:30 a.m. — ignores cops and continues walking with his firearm in his left hand, the videos show.

“Down on the ground! Get down on the ground!” one of the cops can be heard yelling.

At one point, Facey starts to cross East Seventh Street while “outstretching his left arm,” at which point cops open fire, video shows.

Murphy fired twice and Mclaughlin fired once, striking Facey twice in the left hand and once in the back, according to the NYPD.

Video shows Facey fall face-down in the crosswalk, with his hands and .22-caliber North American Arms revolver under him. He had fired the gun five times — though not at cops. Another .22-caliber handgun was found near Reid, officials said.

Police performed CPR at the scene, and Facey was rushed to Bellevue Hospital but could not be saved.

He had already been shot in the chest and thigh in the earlier shootout with Reid, cops said.

Facey was out on parole after a seven-year stint in prison for a prior shooting.

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