BY Mike Jaccarino, Alison Gendar and Joe Kemp
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Sunday, September 13th 2009, 4:00 AM
Three police officers fatally shot a Brooklyn thug in his home Saturday when he stabbed a detective with a 12-inch knife while being arrested for abducting and raping his ex-girlfriend, cops said.
One officer used a Taser on Samuel White, 20, and another officer fired his gun when White lunged at Emergency Service Unit officers with the kitchen blade as they entered his Brighton Beach apartment around 5p.m. after a five-hour standoff, police said.
It was unclear if that bullet hit White.
But when White recovered from being Tasered, he grabbed the knife from the floor and went after the officers again - stabbing a detective in his side, sources said.
"He quickly recovered and was able to stab one of the officers," said Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.
That's when two officers fired five times, fatally wounding White.
The officer, protected by a bullet-resistant vest, was uninjured, police said.
"The cops thought it was a hostage situation at first," said John Demino, 20, a friend of White.
Police responded to a call about 11:30 a.m. yesterday that White was holding his 19-year-old girlfriend hostage with a gun, cops and witnesses said.
When police arrived, they found the young woman on the roof.
She had escaped White through a window, police said.
"I was on the cell phone with him," Demino said. "He was saying, 'She wasn't in the house, and I have no weapons.'"
A relative of the woman, whom witnesses identified as Anastasia, had called police around 10:30a.m. to report that she had been abducted from her home a mile away, sources said.
The woman called the relative an hour later and told her White was holding her hostage at his home, police and witnesses said.
"She climbed out the window and called the cops right away and said she was being held hostage," Demino said.
During the standoff, police made several attempts to place cameras in windows around the house to see if White was armed. He batted the cameras away and covered the windows, Browne said.
White had been arrested Aug.21 for abducting the woman and taking her to a Best Western to rape her, cops said.
He was arrested for assault, kidnapping and criminal possession of a knife, police said.
He was released on bail on Aug. 25.
It was unclear how long White had been involved with the woman, but arrest records indicate a relationship for one or two years, cops said.
The woman had a protective order against him, cops said.
Friends said White couldn't have been armed.
"This kid had no weapons," said George Rivera, 24. "He was a good kid."
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