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Video shows fatal shooting of NYPD cop Jonathan Diller during Queens car stop

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The video starts with three quick gunshots, followed by wails of pain and ending with police officers desperately trying to escape a convergence of NYPD vehicles so they can rush fallen comrade Officer Jonathan Diller to the hospital.

The tragedy played out in 3 minutes 10 seconds on Monday evening in Far Rockaway, surveillance video obtained by the Daily News of the shootout during a routine car stop shows.

The video, from a storefront camera on Mott Ave. near Smith St., shows pedestrians running for cover as shots are fired — one allegedly by suspect Guy Rivera that hit Diller in the abdomen beneath his bullet-resistant vest, the other two by Officer Veckash Khedna, striking Rivera in the back.

Officers can be seen yanking Lindy Jones from the driver's seat and bringing him to the ground, where he was handcuffed. (Obtained by Daily News)

Almost immediately, other officers moved to aid Diller as he lay in the street behind the Kia Soul in which Rivera and driver Lindy Jones were seated.

Lindy Jones in police custody leaving the NYPD 101st Precinct stationhouse on Wednesday. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)

Thirty seconds after the shots rang out, officers can be seen yanking Jones from the driver's seat and bringing him to the ground, where he was handcuffed.

Forty seconds later, sirens can be heard in the distance. They grow louder and louder until an unmarked car pulls up by the Kia, with officers frantically working to get Diller into the back seat

One minute and 17 seconds later, an officer hits the gas to rush Diller to Jamaica Hospital but finds himself stuck in traffic, several police vehicles blocking his path in either direction.

An unmarked car pulls up by the Kia, with officers frantically working to get Diller into the back seat. (Obtained by Daily News)

Thirty seconds later, with one SUV backing up and another driving in the same direction, the path was cleared and the car carrying Diller sped off in reverse.

Diller tragically died at Jamaica Hospital.

NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller with his son. (NYC PBA)

Rivera is recovering at the same hospital from a gunshot wound to his back. He has yet to be charged.

Guy Rivera (Obtained by Daily News)

Jones was charged with gun possession Wednesday. A 9 mm. gun was found in the SUV's glove compartment, police said.

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