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Drug dealer testifies in slain NYPD cop trial

Fallen Police Officer Peter Figoski's daughter Corrine Figoski,

Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Fallen Police Officer Peter Figoski's daughter Corrine Figoski, center, exits the courtroom of the trial of Officer Figoski's alleged killers in Brooklyn Supreme Court. (Jan. 29, 2013).

A small-time Brooklyn drug dealer testified Tuesday that two robbers threatened to kill him in his basement apartment just minutes before one of them allegedly shot and killed NYPD Officer Peter Figoski when the officer encountered the fleeing gunman.

"They came in with two pistols," Jose Hernandez, 27, told the jury in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn at the murder trial of the two men accused...

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