#Two men shot in robbery gone bad at NYC subway station

A career criminal with 45 prior arrests was shot in the face with his own gun in the Bronx Saturday during a subway stickup that also left his victim shot.

Amars Faisal, 21, approached another man and demanded his property at gunpoint in the 182nd-183rd Street D train station around 6 p.m., police sources said.

In the ensuing struggle his gun went off, striking both men. The alleged robber was hit in the face with gunfire, and the 21-year-old victim was stuck in the torso, sources said.

They were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Faisal is in life-threatening condition, sources said. A .38-caliber gun and five shell casings were recovered, according to the sources.

Charges were not immediately filed.

Faisal is affiliated with the WASHSIDE D-L Crew gang, and has been arrested by the NYPD 45 times, including 27 felonies, mostly for robberies, sources said.

Trains were bypassing the station because of the incident, the MTA said.

Eyewitness Jeremy Lynch, a 46-year-old Bronx resident, was in the station when shots rang out and shared footage of the grizzly aftermath with The Post.

“There’s two guys in the other side of the turnstile. I heard arguing,” Lynch explained.

“I hear a shooting and I get behind the booth. People were running around. It was frantic and police started coming from everywhere…every single direction. I just saw people running, dashing, screaming and yelling”

A crowd could be seen gathering around the broad daylight scene, as police and paramedics flooded the station and brought the injured men out on stretchers.

“I saw people running through the door. They probably heard the shot,” nearby bodega worker Sulaiman Alhaji said.

A Bronx woman who was visiting her daughter in the neighborhood said that University Heights has become increasingly dangerous.

“This area is very bad. Every time there is a shooting or killing. Oh my god,” Sonia Contreas, 52, exclaimed.

“My daughter lives two blocks from here so I’m scared. I got a teenage grandson and every time something happens around here, it’s very bad. And now it’s getting worse. There is no police around.”