The off-duty Yonkers cop wounded when his girlfriend was fatally shot by a crazed ex-lover has refused to talk to investigators, a source said.
Regan Smith, 31, was killed Friday in her East Elmhurst home when former boyfriend Nelson Gyron, 47, busted in, grabbed her current boyfriend’s gun, and opened fire, cops said.
Gyron, a personal trainer from Florida, then killed himself, authorities said.
Smith’s current love, Hewett DePass, was shot in the shoulder. DePass and Smith had served in the US Air Force together, a source said.
“He retained a lawyer and won’t talk anymore,” a police source said of DePass. “It just seems kind of weird that he wouldn’t talk.”
A DePass pal, rapper Jonah Legacy, was visiting the wounded man at Elmhurst General Hospital.
“Life is unpredictable,” Legacy told the Post, calling the shooting a “tragic incident” and “crazy.”
Legacy said he knew 43-year-old DePass and Smith from the military.
Later, two men and a woman, who also said they were DePass’ friends from the military, visited the hospital.
“He’s doing OK,” one of the men told the Post without elaborating.
DePass also suffered two additional wounds to the back — which police sources say was the result of a stabbing.
The Yonkers police officer’s attorney insisted his client has “every intention of cooperating with the investigation as soon as he is physically able to do so.”
“Officer DePass did not clam up,” wrote DePass’ lawyer, Anthony J. DiFiore, in an email to the Post. “He was shot and stabbed while trying to save Regan’s life.”
“At the time investigators were trying to interview him he was incapable of speaking with anyone, in the intensive care unit, fighting for his life and heavily sedated,” DiFiore added.