A cop responding to a Brooklyn murder was wounded in the face when the suspect fired a shotgun during a standoff with police early Monday, NYPD sources said.

Police responding to a 5:57 a.m. 911 call for a shooting found a 41-year-old man dead near Hegeman Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St. from a gunshot wound to the chest. The victim’s name was not immediately released.

At some point, the suspect opened fire on cops. It wasn’t immediately clear if the officer was struck by a direct blast of pellets from the shotgun or hit by fragments, possibly from a ricochet.

The officer was taken to Brookdale University Hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, sources said.

The gunman was holed up inside a building for nearly three hours before being taken into custody by cops about 8

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