Cop in Kimani Gray shooting to be honored

Sgt. Mourad Mourad, 31, is shown after receiving an NYPD award for outstanding police work in 2011.

AN NYPD sergeant involved in the fatal shooting of an armed Brooklyn teenager last year is being honored for “active” police work.

Sgt. Mourad Mourad, 31, will receive a “Cop of the Year” award when the NYPD Muslim Officers Society holds its sixth-annual scholarship dinner May 8.

Mourad, who is an Egyptian immigrant and has been on the force for nine years, was chosen for the honor because he is a “very active” cop, said Lt. Adeel Rana, a member of the group, which has 600 members.

“He’s had a lot of good arrests throughout his career,” said Rana.

He’s done a lot of work taking down criminals and taking a lot of guns and drugs off the street.

Mourad and his partner shot and killed Kimani Gray, 16, after the teen pulled a gun on them in East Flatbush in March 2013, police officials have said. Kimani’s family has disputed the police version of events.

Rana argued the shooting does not define Mourad as a cop.

“It is not the whole picture,” Rana said. “He’s done a lot of work taking down criminals and taking a lot of guns and drugs off the street.”

Todd Maisel/New York Daily News Carol Gray, mother of Kimani Gray, 16.

Mourad is back on duty, following a department probe. He has not been charged. Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson has not decided if his office will present evidence in the case to a grand jury, law enforcement sources said.

Mourad was involved in a nonfatal police shooting in 2011 and was named in three federal suits alleging civil rights violations when he was a cop assigned to Staten Island. But he was also decorated by the NYPD for police work in 2011.

Kenneth Montgomery, a lawyer who is suing the city on behalf of Gray’s kin, railed against the NYPD Muslim Officers Society’s decision to honor Mourad.

Julia Xanthos/New York Daily News Carol Gray as she spoke with the Daily News last year to discuss her son’s death. She is being embraced by her 12-year-old son, Gishanie Gray.

“I find it appalling that someone could be made ‘Cop of the Year’ after violating people’s civil rights,” said Montgomery. “If he kills somebody, that doesn’t seem to bother the New York City Police Department.”

The group’s scholarship dinner will also honor Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who is a former NYPD cop; City Councilman Chaim Deutsch, a Democrat from Brooklyn; and Police Officer Jamil Sarwar, who was shot in the leg on Independence Day last year as he responded to a call of shots fired at an East New York housing project.

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