The mother of a teen suspect shot and critically wounded by police in a struggle that injured an NYPD sergeant said she doesn’t fault the cops for “doing their job,” but is anguished by the challenges she’s faced in getting her son—who has long struggled with mental illness and anger issues — the help he desperately needs.

Police reporting to a report of an armed robbery in the Bronx late Thursday opened fire as 18-year-old Antonio Morales, armed and struggling to break free, knocked a sergeant to the ground leaving him with a head injury, police said.

“I am not mad at the police for doing their job. That is their job. That’s what they’re supposed to do. I’m not gonna condone or say [my son] didn’t do anything wrong. He did something wrong,” said the mother, who didn’t want her name

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