Authorities say that a 57-year-old suspect was shot and killed by police after committing two armed robberies in Queens on Tuesday evening.

The suspect, identified as 57-year-old Gary Worthy, of Queens, has 17 prior arrests, including murder, robbery, burglary and narcotics possession.

The Queens gunman who shot and wounded an NYPD cop along with an innocent bystander before he was shot dead was a career criminal with more than 17 felony arrests stretching back to the 1980s, police said.