A man killed in a police shooting last night in Brooklyn was a fugitive wanted in the shooting of a police officer in Georgia, police said.

Narcotics investigators investigating a separate case came upon the fugitive, identified as Darin Richardson, when he was leaving an East New York bodega with what appeared to be a gun in his pocket. They did not realize he was listed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for the 2005 Georgia shooting, police officials said.

In the 2005 incident, Richardson shot a police officer during a confrontation at a gas station in Cobb County, according to police there. Richardson pulled out a .38-caliber revolver he had allegedly stolen that day, and fired at Officer A.B. Higgins, knocking him to the ground, officials said. Richardson then stood over Officer Higgins and fired at his head, Cobb County officials said.

Officer Higgins, in his first year as a police officer, was grazed by the second bullet and survived.

Richardson had been on the run ever since, using various aliases including Richard Kydd and Richard D. Kydd III, according to the FBI.

At about 9 p.m. on Tuesday, two detectives and a police officer in plainclothes from the Brooklyn North Narcotics Unit noticed Richardson leaving a bodega on Belmont Avenue with a bulge in his clothing. They followed him to Fountain Avenue, where they got out of their car.

Midway down the block, a detective and a police officer, each with nine years on the force, identified themselves as police and called out to Richardson to stop, police said, citing accounts of the shooting from 16 witnesses. Police said Richardson then began to trot away, turning at one point to partially face the officers with the gun in his hand.

The authorities then opened fire, with two of the police officer’s bullets hitting Richardson in the back and left leg.

Richardson did not fire his weapon, which police said was loaded. Police officials said Richardson then ran to the end of the block and collapsed. He was later pronounced dead, and police are now examining his gun to determine if it was the same one used in the Georgia shooting.

The shooting, the fifth involving police in one day, came during a tense and bloody beginning of the New Year, with four separate shootings directed at police within two hours earlier in the day.

Police yesterday publicized for the first time the fourth shooting involving police at 2 a.m. Tuesday in Williamsburg. Police said they shot at two separate male suspects with guns as they were trying to break up a major fight in a public housing project in Williamsburg. No one was hurt, and both suspects were arrested.