The wounded tenant is a Mexican immigrant who speaks no English, police said, and may not have understood cops’ commands to put down the knife he carried outside to confront a man he said was trying to dislodge the air conditioning unit from his window on E. 148th St. near Courtlandt Ave. in Mott Haven.

It was the shooting victim who called 911 before dashing to the hallway and through a door leading to an alley over which the air conditioner hangs.

Separate videos show the victim in the alley, and one cop opening fire when he returns to the hallway. The shooting video shows the officer squeezing the trigger at a person off camera.

Police said a “butcher knife” was recovered from the scene.

“When he called, he spoke Spanish,” said Rohan Griffith, commanding officer of NYPD’s force investigation unit.

Griffith said officials need to determine if the officers and the tenant understood each other.

Neighbor Juan Rivera, 78, said cops responded quickly.

“I was walking my dog and so many cops came into the building,” Rivera said. “The detectives told me someone tried to steal the guy’s air conditioner [and] he went after the guy with a knife. They told him to drop the knife.”

Police said it was unclear if the man in the alley was trying to actually steal the appliance or remove it to get into the apartment.

The shooting happened within seconds.

“Bang, bang. Two shots,” Rivera said. “When they brought him out he was bleeding. I don’t think the shooting is totally right. … They didn’t waste any time shooting him.”

Neighbor David Bermudez, 25, said he also heard two shots.

“The lady cop shot him,” Bermudez said. “The guy was laid out. He was bleeding. I saw a lot of blood. I was scared and confused. The cops were telling me ‘you have to leave, you can’t stay here.’ The Bronx is getting worse and worse everyday.”

Griffith said police are still searching for the would-be thief.

Jasmin Thompson, 25, fled to a southern state after the Jan. 7 fracas, which left Jennira Roundtree mortally wounded after she was stabbed numerous times outside her building in the West Brighton Houses on Henderson Ave. near Broadway, prosecutors said Monday.

While on the lam, she was featured on podcast LFTG radio, where she told host Elliott Carterr she’s “not a killer.”

The altercation that Roundtree, 43, intervened in was sparked by a social media dispute involving her 13-year-old daughter and other girls, police sources and the victim’s family previously told the Daily News.

Also involved in the feud was Thompson’s cousin, whom the woman claims Roundtree’s son punched in the face a week before the confrontation, which police said involved about 20 women and girls.

“[I said] we need to speak to the parents,” Thompson said on the podcast. “Because this needs to end, because we all live in the same hood.”

But when Thompson arrived to the building to straighten out the disagreement, Roundtree and other women were swinging a golf club and a sock filled with locks, ready for a fight, according to the woman and her attorney, Mario Gallucci.

“They didn’t even talk, they just on that,” Thompson told Carterr. “She wasn’t being a mom, a real mom. I’m a mom.”

Thompson denied neighbors’ claims that a mob of 20 confronted Roundtree’s 12-year-old daughter, calling it “only like four of us and it was 20 of them.”

After Roundtree was stabbed numerous times about her body, Thompson claims she picked up the bloodied knife as she was “scared for” her life.

“Look, the mom is already on the floor,” Thompson narrated as she showed the podcast host video of the brawl. “So how are you all saying I did it?”

Thompson turned herself into the NYPD’s 120th Precinct Monday morning — six days after the fatal attack. She was charged with murder, manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. She was held without bail following an arraignment in Staten Island Criminal Court.

“The investigation revealed that Amira T. White, a bank manager, stole $54,648 from cash boxes located at the bank and maintained by her,” the Bergen County prosecutors’ office announced on Friday. “Additionally, White withdrew approximately $15,000 from a customer’s account and diverted those funds to her own cash box balance in order to conceal the ongoing theft.”

White surrendered to authorities last week and was charged with two counts of theft by deception, prosecutors said.

The name and location of the bank where White worked was not disclosed, nor was the name of the customer whose account was ripped off to cover White’s crimes.

In a 20-page filing, Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion, Oholei Torah, United Talmudical Academy, and Yeshiva Mesivta Arugas Habosem said reviewers refused to credit instruction from Jewish Studies and interfered in their hiring, among other objections to the process.

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“Taken together, these discriminatory practices would strip the Yeshivas of their essential Jewish character,” wrote Avi Schick, an attorney for the yeshivas at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. “If they can’t devote sufficient time to Jewish Studies with instruction in their original language … then they are no longer Jewish schools.”

“The Office of Civil Rights should exercise its oversight over these New York agencies that receive billions of dollars in federal funds annually by thoroughly investigating their discriminatory practices and remediating their discriminatory conduct.”

The civil rights complaint, filed a week before President-elect Trump is set to take office, takes aim at a process in state education regulations adopted in 2022, which may put religious and other private schools through a review of basic subjects, such as reading and math, to ensure they are at least “substantially equivalent” to those offered at public schools.

The U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights could not confirm receipt of the complaint late Monday.

A rep for the New York State Education Department said it could not comment in the suit itself but pushed back against its core claims.

“We disagree with the allegations, which constitute a challenge to State law,” said J.P. O’Hare, a spokesman. “We note that counsel for these complainants has previously unsuccessfully challenged the Board of Regents’ substantial equivalency regulations in court.”

Schick said the yeshivas are not challenging the state regulations themselves, but the alleged use of the reviews to “impose its secular views on these Jewish schools.” Private schools that are approved by an independent accreditor or have their students pass state-approved standardized tests are exempt from the review process.

Trump campaigned on “parental rights” to make decisions about their children’s education and a crackdown on allegations of antisemitism in schools.

In a statement released after the filing, Jewish advocates for yeshiva reform accused the four schools taking their action to a forum more likely to provide a favorable judgment, while a lawsuit is pending in New York’s highest court. The group, Young Advocates for Fair Education, has long accused some yeshivas of failing to prepare its graduates to fully participate in life outside of the Hasidic community if they so choose.

“Today’s federal civil rights complaint filed against the New York State and City Education Departments is nothing more than a desperate and cynical attempt at court shopping,” said Adina Mermelstein Konikoff, executive director of Young Advocates for Fair Education.

“The grievances outlined in this complaint have already been dismissed repeatedly in state court, and this latest maneuver reeks of bad faith.”

“Let’s be clear: this is not about protecting civil rights — it’s about shielding institutions from accountability while tens of thousands of children are denied a basic education,” she continued. “Teaching English, math, science, and social studies does not contradict Jewish values; it complements them.”

Lucrecia Jadan Sumba was pronounced dead late Saturday afternoon after her remains were recovered from a trash receptacle near a bank in the small town of Coopersburg, according to Lehigh Valley Live.

Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan reportedly said no crime had been committed in Lehigh County, but stated that law enforcement in another state apprehended a person of interest. NJ.com said Sumba’s death is being investigated as a homicide.

A fundraising page set up to help the victim’s family describes her as a married mother of four who came to the U.S. from Ecuador in 2021. Colleagues at the nail salon where she worked became concerned when Sumba didn’t show up for work Thursday after having off the previous day.

The victim was said to have come to the United States “looking for a better future for her family” and was working toward her GED.

Coopersburg is located just south of Allentown near Pennsylvania’s border with New Jersey. It’s home to roughly 2,500 people.

“It has been a very good week here in New York,” said Juliette Michaelson, MTA’s deputy chief of policy and external relations and a chief architect of the agency’s congestion pricing plan. “Just look out the window — there’s less traffic, quieter streets, and I think everybody’s seen it.”

While anecdotal evidence has abounded in the nine days since New York started charging drivers to drive on Manhattan’s surface streets at or below 60th St., Monday marks the first time the MTA has released data obtained by the tolling network.

According to the data collected last week, 499,016 vehicles entered the congestion tolling zone last Monday, the first weekday since tolling began. Those numbers steadily rose through the work week, with 561,604 vehicles entering the zone on Friday.

On average, that’s 539,217 vehicles a day — 7.5% fewer vehicles than the agency said would typically enter during a work week in January.

“These are significantly lower volumes than we would have expected without the program,” Michaelson said.

For those who do drive — or ride on the MTA’s buses — the data shows that the reduction in crossings has had a sizable impact on most commute times.

Comparing last Wednesday to an average Wednesday in January 2024, travel times improved across the board at all river crossings in the congestion zone.

A drive into Manhattan through the Lincoln Tunnel Wednesday was 39% faster than last January, according to the data. The Queens-Midtown Tunnel sped up 39%, and the Brooklyn Bridge sped up 28%. The smallest improvement was at the Manhattan Bridge — which still had 10% faster travel times than in January last year.

“For one day of data, to see such consistently high trip-time reductions is just very, very significant,” Michaelson said.

Similarly, east-west streets across the congestion zone saw speeds increase. With the exception of westbound traffic on 42nd St. and 23rd St., crosstown traffic times fell between 6% and 36%.

North-south travel times remained largely the same, however. Traffic on Third Ave. and Eighth Ave. sped up by more than 20%, but Second, Fifth and Ninth Aves. saw 1% longer travel times.

Michaelson and other MTA officials emphasized that the data is preliminary, and that the travel time data in particular is based on just one day of congestion pricing.

“This is still preliminary data,” Michaelson said.  “Travel patterns, we expect, will change.”

The MTA has not yet crunched the numbers on what the data means for tolling revenue — an income stream that is meant to back $15 billion in bonds to fund some of the agency’s biggest expansion and repair projects.

John McCarthy, MTA’s head of policy and external relations, told reporters to expect early revenue revenue data in “weeks, not months.”

The data comes as members of New York’s Republican delegation traveled to Mar-a-Lago over the weekend and reportedly discussed plans to kill the congestion toll with President Elect Donald Trump.

Trump has been a longtime opponent of the plan, and vowed early in his presidential run to undo it if elected — though it remains unclear what legal paths he would have to up-end a toll that’s administered by the state and has already been approved by federal regulators.

Asked about Trump’s threat prior to the MTA’s Monday data release, Mayor Adams said he wanted more information, and didn’t want to “throw more hysteria into this law of the land.”

“If the president decides an action such as that, I don’t control it,” he said.

Amid a slew of challengers, Cuomo’s potential entry into the race has become a topic of speculation. In the past few months, he’s switched his voter registration address to Manhattan, has spoken with a potential campaign manager and has been floating early February as a target date for a potential announcement, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Speaking Monday during his weekly City Hall briefing, Adams compared the new numbers on Cuomo to the early edge held by Andrew Yang in 2021, calling it “deja vu” and pulling out a print-out of a 2021 headline that read “Andrew Yang opens up huge lead in race to be next New York City mayor.”

“No one is going to outwork me,” Adams said. “I am so committed authentically to New Yorkers. They connect with me. I went through some difficult hurdles. It’s amazing I’m still in it with the number of things I had to go through, but I’m still here.”

Yang, an early leader in the race to replace former Mayor de Blasio, was ultimately the first candidate to concede and later finished fourth.

The new poll, commissioned by Progressives for Democracy in America, found Cuomo came in first in the ranked-choice-style poll at 32%, and Adams at 6%. It follows polling that have shown Adams likely facing an uphill battle to re-election: A December poll found Adams’ job approval rating is at an all-time low of 28% and an October survey revealed more than two-thirds of New Yorkers thought Adams should resign.

Cuomo, who resigned as governor amid a sexual harassment scandal in 2021, has for months been floated as a possible mayoral challenger to Adams.

In the poll, Scott Stringer landed second at 10%, with Brad Lander at 8%, State Sen. Jessica Ramos at 7% and state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani at 6%. State Sen. Zellnor Myrie came in at 1% — with another 18% selecting “unsure.”

The poll was first reported by Politico and conducted on 800 voters between Dec. 16 and Dec. 22.

“We just wanted to know who might be competitive against Cuomo given obvious name recognition,” Alan Minsky, executive director of the group, said on why they commissioned the poll with Hart Research Associates.

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The Grammy winner is confirmed to sing “America the Beautiful” when Trump is sworn in for his second term as president on Jan. 20 in Washington.

Representatives for Trump confirmed Monday that the “Before He Cheats” singer will be joined by the Armed Forces Choir and United States Naval Academy Glee Club.

Underwood, 41, was the headliner of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest” on Dec. 31. The Oklahoma native came to fame after winning “American Idol” in 2005, and has since earned six platinum albums, eight Grammy Awards and five Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year Awards. She’s thrice been named the Academy of Country Music Awards’ Entertainer of the Year, the most of any female artist.

The Village People are also onboard to perform at Trump’s inauguration celebrations next week. The disco-era band’s late 1970s hit “YMCA” — widely considered a gay anthem — was prominent on the 2024 presidential campaign trail. The song also spawned a signature dance by the president-elect.

The group’s longtime front man Victor Willis (who plays the cop character) confirmed on social media Monday that they would appear at several parties in Washington, despite their difference in political ideologies.

“Our song YMCA is a global anthem that hopefully helps bring the country together after a tumultuous and divided campaign where our preferred candidate lost,” the 73-year-old crooner wrote on Facebook. “Therefore, we believe it’s now time to bring the country together with music.”

Grammy-winning country singer/songwriter Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio have also been confirmed as inauguration ceremony performers.

“God Bless the U.S.A.,” which Greenwood released in 1984, has become a patriotic anthem and is frequently played at Trump rallies.

Carter, the nation’s 39th President, died Dec. 29 and was buried in his hometown of Plains, Ga., last week. President Biden ordered a 30-day mourning period for the Democrat, who lived to be 100 years old. That means flags will be at half-staff when Trump is inaugurated Jan. 20.

The president-elect has expressed frustration that his day of celebration will coincide with the mourning of a former president.

“The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration,” he posted to social media Jan. 3. “Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that he, too, is ready to take a break from mourning Carter to begin celebrating Trump.

“As we unite our country and usher in this new era of leadership, I ordered all flags to be raised to full-staff at the Texas Capitol and all state buildings for the inauguration of President Trump,” the Republican governor said in a statement

Flying flags at half-staff for 30 days after a president dies is U.S. policy, though there are no clear consequences for breaking with that tradition. Flags are lowered for 10 days to mourn the death of a vice president, speaker of the House and an active or retired Supreme Court chief justice.

Carter served a single term in the White House before leaving office in 1981. No U.S. president lived longer. All five living presidents attended his funeral in Washington on Thursday. They are Trump, Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Details for Trump’s inauguration continued to take shape Monday with musicians Carrie Underwood and the Village People announcing they’ll sing for the 47th president.

“We know this won’t make some of you happy to hear however we believe that music is to be performed without regard to politics,” the Village People posted on Facebook.

Their 1978 song “YMCA” frequently plays at Trump events. The president-elect told podcasters the Nelk Boys in 2022 that’s one of the songs he plays when hosting parties at Mar-a-Lago.

The two, whom police did not identify, were booked on charges of violating the curfew that has been in effect in evacuation zones since late last week. They were arrested at 4:40 a.m. Saturday, the Los Angeles Police Department told Deadline.

The two were among 29 arrests that have been made for burglary, breaking curfew and other violations since the fires started, Deadline noted. About 25 of those were related to the Eaton fire and four in the Palisades area, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Chief Robert Luna said Sunday, according to USA Today.

Harris’s property was never in danger of being burglarized, since it is guarded 24/7 by secret service agents collaborating with local law enforcement, and the pair “likely had no idea where they were,” a law enforcement source told KNBC-TV.

The LAPD said the matter was being investigated.

Harris’s Brentwood neighborhood, where Dennis Quaid, LeBron James, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger also have homes, was evacuated last Wednesday as the Palisades Fire crept closer.

As of early Monday, at least 25 people had been killed, the Los Angeles Times reported, and 16 were missing, numbers that authorities said would most likely rise. More than 80,000 people have been displaced.