The bullet that killed a beautiful Hofstra University student — who was held hostage by an armed gunman — was fired by a Nassau County cop, authorities said Saturday night.

Authorities revealed the tragic twist hours after a hulking ex-con — who jumped parole three weeks ago — was identified as the ski-mask-wearing assailant.

An April 25 warrant was issued for Dalton Smith, 30, who was paroled Feb. 4 after serving nearly nine years for attempted robbery and weapons possession, according to state correction records.

Smith, who did a prior state prison stretch from 2000-’03, had “an extensive criminal history” including previous arrests for robbery, assault and dealing contraband behind bars, authorities said.

Andrea Rebello, 21, was shot dead at an off-campus home in Uniondale, L.I., where she lived with her twin sister, Jessica, and her sorority sisters.

Earlier Saturday, a Nassau County police spokesman said investigators were still trying to piece together the chaotic events that led to the deaths of Rebello and Smith.

But four detectives, in dark suits and ties, arrived at the Rebellos’ Westchester County home late Saturday afternoon.

The grim quartet arrived in a black SUV, and walked to the front door in single file. They left without speaking about 25 minutes later.
Nassau County Police Department released a photo of suspect Dalton Smith wanted in relation to the fatal Hofstra shooting of Andrea Rebello.

The Hofstra junior and her identical twin were among four students inside the two-story house at 213 California Ave. when Smith forced his way inside around 2:30 a.m. Friday.

He was killed in the gunfire after police stormed the home, and his silver handgun was recovered at the scene — although police aren’t saying if the weapon was fired.

Cops said the wanted man was identified through his fingerprints. But they wouldn’t even confirm if he was killed by police bullets.

Surviving sister Jessica Rebello, who escaped the gunplay without injury, remained silent Saturday inside her family’s Tarrytown, N.Y., home.

A funeral for Andrea was set for Wednesday in nearby Sleepy Hollow, where the inseparable twins had attended high school. The Mass at St. Teresa of Avila Church will be recited in Portuguese.

The Rebello family has yet to comment on the tragedy or the ongoing investigation into the shooting. “We would really appreciate you not calling,” said a woman reached at the Rebello household. “There is nobody here to say anything at the moment. We would appreciate if you respect our privacy at the moment.”

Devastated friends and family members came in and out of the tidy brick-and-shingle home with its manicured front lawn and potted flowers on the front steps.

When Dorian Joyner Jr.’s dad told him that he would soon be joining him at Morehouse College, the freshman thought it meant that his father would be coming for a visit.

In actuality, his father meant that he would soon be joining him as a student at the Atlanta campus, he told WXIA-TV.

The younger Joyner and his father, Dorian Joyner Sr., will both be graduating from Morehouse College this Sunday after spending three years together on campus. President Barack Obama will be speaking at the ceremony.

While the elder Joyner initially attended the school from 1984 through 1988, he dropped out early to build his career, according to a profile on the Morehouse website. Years later, after his oldest son had began attending Morehouse, he decided he wanted to re-enroll and complete his degree.

While his son was initially shocked by his dad’s decision, he said he liked having him around on campus.

"We used to have a support system. Sometimes he would come to my room to ask about a problem or a class or a professor to take," the younger Joyner told WXIA-TV.

In fact, the younger Joyner, an English major, said being on campus with his father, a religion major who plans to attend law school, was actually “natural."

“We rarely see each other, because we have class and we have our own lifestyles. He have a job; I have a job; he have a social life, and I have a social life,” he said in a Morehouse video. “But when we on campus, we see each other as students and also as father and son.”

The duo isn't the only family to graduate together.

Earlier this month, father and mother Jeff and Christina Crise, and son and daughter Josh and Amada Crise, all graduated from Des Moines Area Community College, according to local Iowa outlet KCCI News.

City Councilwoman Inez Dickens — a top contender to be the next City Council speaker — is so far in arrears on property taxes that the city plans to sell the debt to a collector, the Daily News has learned.

She owns 50 percent of two Harlem apartment buildings that have amassed $48,375 in unpaid taxes, fees and interest, city records show.

The Department of Finance is scheduled to auction off tax liens on the two properties — at 2153 and 2155 Seventh Ave. — on Friday. The buyers of the liens will have the right to collect the debts.

The Harlem Democrat inherited her ownership in the buildings from her father, the late City Councilman Lloyd Dickens. She is listed as the emergency contact for them on registration forms filed with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

But her spokesman insisted Dickens was not involved in management of the properties.

“The Council member is not engaged in any way with the real estate side,” spokesman Simeon Banister told The News. “Her family actually manages that .... She doesn’t draw a salary from the real estate business.”

Councilwoman Inez Dickens is said to be a deadbeat landlord and property owner because she owes more than $48,000 in taxes on two buildings slated to be auctioned. One of them is located at 2155 Seventh Ave. in Harlem.

A message left at one of her family’s real estate companies was not immediately returned Thursday.

This is not the first time Dickens has been a deadbeat.

The News revealed two years ago that Dickens and family members owed back taxes on four properties in Harlem, including one of the buildings in arrears today. The day The News inquired about that debt, which totaled $41,277, Dickens paid it off.

When The News confronted her about the payments, she said, “My constituents don’t care about this issue!” and stormed away.

City records show that one of the buildings now in arrears, at 2155 Seventh Ave., has 21 unresolved building code violations, including missing smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and defective power outlets.

Last year, the city paid $521.06 to make emergency repairs at the site. That bill is part of the unpaid debt Dickens and her co-owners face.

The owners also owe $52,000 in back water and sewer charges on the two buildings, but have negotiated a 10-year payment plan with the Department of Environmental Protection, a spokesman said.

Chad Johnson whose NFL career came to an end when he was cut by the Dolphins following a domestic violence incident, is once again in trouble in connection with the same incident.

A judge has issued a warrant for Johnson’s arrest because he violated his probation by failing to report to his probation officer, a spokesman for the Broward State Attorney’s Office told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

On August 11, Johnson’s then-wife, Evelyn Lozada, said he head-butted her during an argument. The domestic violence charge led the Dolphins to cut him, as documented on Hard Knocks, and that effectively ended Johnson’s career, as no other team considered Johnson worth the trouble.

Johnson eventually pleaded no contest and was placed on probation. He and Lozada divorced in September after 11 weeks of marriage.

According to comments he posted on Twitter, Johnson is currently in Pasadena.

A drunken Florida woman stabbed her boyfriend with an 8-inch blade after he farted in her face during an argument, police say.

Deborah Ann Burns, 37, allegedly knifed her lover of six years — Willie Butler, 53 — as they watched television in their Immokalee apartment last week.

Burns told cops they were fighting about cash when Butler got up to go to the kitchen and broke wind on her head.

She confronted him and things turned ugly — with Butler allegedly throwing a knife at her, which missed.

Burns reportedly picked it up and threw it back and hit him in the stomach.

She ran outside, before returning to hit him with a stick on his left arm.

Cops arrived to find a bleeding Butler, who was so drunk he could not give a statement, standing in front of his mailbox.

Burns, who denies cutting Butler, was arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, reports 14News.

She remains in custody on a $50,000 bond.

Kansas City high school student is making history.

Hailey Cherokee Jordan, 16, is a Senior at Archbishop O'Hara High School.

With her 5.1 GPA, she becomes the school's first black valedictorian. She's also the school's youngest graduating senior.

"Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something because that will only put you down." Jordan said. "Just make sure that motivates you to do better to prove them wrong."

Jordan has been a straight A student throughout her school career.

She plans on going to Stanford University with a full scholarship. She plans to double-major in biochemistry and spanish.

An Illinois man is charged with soliciting prostitution, after authorities say he left his new bride at an Omni Hotel in Florida, to meet up with a hooker he found online, who turned out to be an undercover detective. Muhammed Ahmed was arrested along with dozens of others in an undercover prostitution sting by the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Deputies say Admed was on his honeymoon at the time of his arrest. Gillian Pensavalle has more.

The Florida teenager who was arrested two weeks ago for causing a small explosion on the campus of her high school will not be charged with a crime. Kiera Wilmot, 16, was arrested by police in Bartow, Florida, after conducting an unauthorized science experiment which lightly damaged an eight ounce plastic water bottle.

At the time, Wilmot faced possible charges for “possessing or discharging weapons or firearms at a school sponsored event or on school property.” If she had been convicted, she could have faced up to five years in prison.

Wilmot’s arrest became a national story, as members of the press and the scientific community insisted that Wilmot was the victim of a massive overreaction from law enforcement. A crowdfunded legal defense fund netted over $8,000 to cover Wilmot’s potential legal fees, and a Change.org petition to get the charges dropped received nearly 200,000 signatures.

“Even though I don’t have the privilege of knowing Kiera, I believe we all have the responsibility to stand up with one another whenever there is injustice and felt I had to do whatever I could to make sure the unjust felony charges were dropped,” said Maggie Gilman, the creator of the petition, in a statement circulated by Change.org. “I’m very thankful to the 195,000 people who stood with Kiera and signed the petition on Change.org!”

Wilmot has already served a ten-day suspension, and is now attending another high school, according to her attorney.

A couple filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of South Carolina for what they say was an unnecessary sexual assignment surgery performed on a toddler they later adopted.

Lawyers for Pam and Mark Crawford said Tuesday they were suing the Department of Social Services for having irreversible surgery performed on a 16-month-old child they eventually adopted and raised as a girl.

The child was born in 2004 with both male and female genitalia and placed in state custody after the termination of parental rights, according court papers. At the age of 16 months, doctors removed the child's male genitalia, leaving the toddler with female parts, according to court papers.

"The doctors knew that sex assignment surgeries on infants ... poses a significant risk of imposing a gender that is ultimately rejected by the patient," attorneys claim in the suit.

Instead, the lawyers argue, the optional surgery should have been delayed until the child was older and self-identified as male or female.

"That was a permanent, irreversible decision that was not theirs to make," attorney Ken Suggs said Tuesday of the lawsuits, which he said are the first of their kind in the United States.

At the time of adoption, the Crawfords said they knew their child was born with ambiguous genitalia and raised the child as a girl starting in 2006. But about a year ago, the Crawfords say their now-8-year-old child told them he wanted to be raised as a boy. They supported the decision, allowing him to cut his hair short and wear boys' clothes.

The Crawfords said their family is adjusting, their son is happy and has the support of his community and school. But they chose to sue to keep other families from going through similar struggles.

The state lawsuit accuses the Medical University of South Carolina — where the surgery was performed — and Greenville Hospital — where the child was born — of negligence medical malpractice for not getting the patient's informed consent before surgery and failing to warn of potential problems resulting from it.

A spokeswoman for the Greenville Hospital System did not immediately comment on the suit. The Medical University of South Carolina and the Department of Social Services declined to comment.

The child is healthy, but the Crawfords' lawyers say there are medical issues that can result from the surgery, including sterilization or the loss of sexual function.

"These doctors wanted to play God," said Alesdair Ittelson, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which helped bring the lawsuit. About one in every 2,000 children is born "intersex," or with ambiguous genitalia, according to Anne Tamar-Mattis, an attorney with Advocates for Informed Choice, a group that supports intersex children.