A retired NYPD detective helped nab a triple-shooting suspect who was on the run after he allegedly shot his girlfriend and her teen sons — leaving one of the kids dead.
Patricia Schiller, a 20-year member of New York’s Finest, had heard suspected killer Fernando Jimenez was on the loose near her tiny real estate office off Peekskill Hollow Road in Putnam Valley, New York — so she strapped on her gun and went to make sure the place was OK.
“There were helicopters all over, there were [New York State] troopers with their dogs,” Schiller told The Post on Wednesday. “And I was thinking, ‘He’s going to come out of the woods.’ You never know.”
But that’s when she noticed something strange: Her office’s air conditioner unit, normally lodged in the side window, was laying on the ground. And the blinds were completely drawn.
“We never put the blinds the way he had them,” she said. “He put everything down so nobody could see in. It didn’t feel right.”
When she checked her interior surveillance camera — which has sound — she could hear a man breathing and moving around.
That was all the proof the former investigator needed — and she took it to a state trooper who was sitting at a nearby intersection.
“I said, ‘Listen to me, call you gotta call, but…
