[NYPOST] The Minneapolis cop who shot and killed an Australian bride-to-be, took the stand at his own murder trial and tearfully confessed that he regrets becoming a police officer, according to reports."If I knew this would happen, I never would have become a cop," Mohammed Noor said while being questioned by his lawyer, Tom Plunkett, in Hennepin County District Court on Thursday.
The former officer testified that he thought Justine Damond ‐ a 40-year-old yoga teacher who called 911 to report a disturbance at her home ‐ was "a threat" when she approached his police vehicle in her pink pajamas in July 2017, local NBC affiliate KARE 11 reported.
Noor, 32, told jurors he fired his gun because he heard a loud bang on the driver’s door and thought his partner Matthew Harrity’s life was in danger.
When he realized she was not armed, he became frozen with grief, he testified.
"I felt like my whole world came crashing down. Great anguish. Couldn’t breathe. [I had] slight paralysis," Noor said ‐ and then began crying, according to Twincities.com.
He later told a lawyer for the prosecution, "I had to make a split-second decision."
Noor shot Damond in the stomach after he was called to her home around 11:30 p.m. July 15, 2017, to investigate a possible assault.
He has claimed he saw a man on a bike riding toward Damond’s house right before the shooting ‐ and that he acted in self-defense.