The madman who shot two cops in a hate-fueled attack on a Queens church Sunday had bought his shotgun at a reputable Long Island shop without a hitch – since his juvenile record was sealed, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Kevin Davy, 25, who recorded a rap DVD spewing venom at cops, bought the 12-gauger in Rockville Centre in 2003, sources said. A background check was clear, with no mention of a 1996 robbery – when he was 16.
He critically wounded the cops at Sts. Joachim and Anne Catholic Church, where he decapitated a statue of St. Anne and the Virgin Mary, authorities said. One officer shot Davy in the side.
He is charged with first-degree attempted murder, second-degree criminal mischief as a hate crime and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Convicted of selling drugs in Nassau County, Davy was on probation until 2010, a source said, and was arrested for alleged indecent exposure in Georgia in 2002.
Davy, who is to be arraigned today and faces 25 years in prison, grew up in a quiet home in Queens Village but is bipolar and had been seeing a psychiatrist twice a week, his family told police.
Officer Dominick Romano, 26, was hit in the head and back, and his partner, David Harris, 40, in the leg.
Additional reporting by Michael White & C.J. Sullivan