Watch: NYPD bodycam captures pointblank Bronx shootout

Watch: NYPD bodycam captures pointblank Bronx shootout: Dramatic video released by the NYPD Tuesday shows a Bronx cop exchanging fire with a gunman from no more than three feet away. Officer Lewellyn Alvarez somehow avoided getting struck in the May 19 incident. Suspect Calvin Peterkin, 39, got away despite three gunshot wounds. Peterkin, who has served state prison time for robbery, was later nabbed and charged with attempted murder, gun possession and menacing. Alvarez and his partner, Officer Imran Alli, both in uniform, confronted Peterkin after someone called 911 to report a man with a gun inside a Boost Mobile store on E. 174th St. and Vyse Ave. in Morrisania, police said Tuesday Video from inside the shop shows Peterkin minutes earlier threatening an employee with a gun, with the employee trying to calm him down. When the cops arrived Peterkin came to the store entranceway asking what he had done. The interaction was captured on the officers’ body-worn cameras.