Cop in NYPD ax attack takes his first steps in a week

The rookie cop hacked in the head by a hatchet-swinging terrorist took a triumphant step to recovery Tuesday — walking on his own for the first time since the attack, police sources told The Post.

Kenneth Healey, 25, of Oceanside, LI, bravely left behind the walker he had been using and "took a few steps" around his room in Jamaica Hospital's intensive care unit, the sources said.

"He's progressing nicely. He's getting stronger and better. Every day he has a better frame of mind — and his spirits are getting higher," a police source said.

"He wants to get better so he can go back to being a police officer like his dad," who is a Nassau County Police detective, the source said.

Healey — the officer most seriously injured by Muslim extremist Zale Thompson, 32, last Thursday — may soon transfer to a rehabilitation center, the source said.

The devoted cop is in critical but stable condition, and to avoid infection, will remain at the hospital until his wounds heal, the police source said.

Despite the serious head injury, he remembers the attack, the source said.

Officer Kenneth Healey moments before the ax attack.Photo: Dominick Williams/MotionViewPictures

Fellow cops shot Thompson — a Navy veteran — on the street in Jamaica, Queens, after he lunged at Healey and three fellow rookie cops.

The ax-wielding attacker missed two of the officers but also sliced officer Joseph Meeker's arm.

Meeker, 24, has been released from the hospital.

Bystander LaToya James, 29, who was struck by a stray police bullet during the shootout, is also at Jamaica Hospital.

Over the last several years, Thompson developed a fixation with Islamic propaganda and became radically anti-government, police have said.

Thompson was not connected with a terror group or any mosque, and had no criminal record in New York, police sources have said.

— Additional reporting by Natalie O'Neill

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