Shot officer in good spirits, calls fellow cops ‘heroes’

Officer Robert Salerno

The young cop who was seriously wounded yesterday in a Bronx shootout hailed his three partners as “heroes” for jumping to his aid.

Lying in his hospital bed, unable to speak because of a tube down his throat, Officer Robert Salerno jotted down on a notepad to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly: “The other guys are heroes,” as he also sketched out exactly what happened inside the housing project when he was shot by a crazed gunman.

“He drew a diagram showing the apartment, showing the bedroom, showing where he was and when he was hit, when he went down [the other officers] had to go into the line of fire to save him,” Kelly said after visiting the cop this morning at Lincoln Hospital.

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