The two attackers who stabbed an off-duty detective in the Bronx during a botched robbery have been identified as undocumented immigrants from the Dominican Republic, NYPD and federal officials said Tuesday.

D'Angelo Carabello, 25, who has two pending weapons cases in the Bronx, and Sneider Mejia, 24, who was ordered deported last year, according to the feds, are wanted for stabbing and wounding Det. Jose Mercedes Friday afternoon, cops said.

Detectives believe that the two fled the city following the stabbing, police sources said.

Mercedes, who is assigned to the 44th Precinct, was getting something from the trunk of his Mustang, parked on E. 208th St. near Steuben Ave. in Norwood, when two men crept up behind him and tried to steal his gold chain.

The robbery quickly turned physical. Mercedes, 33, was stabbed up to seven times before he chased after his attackers, who fled empty-handed on a bike.

Video obtained by the Daily News shows police assisting medics in lifting the wounded detective off the street, where blood can be seen pooling along the curb, and onto a gurney.

Medics rushed the victim to Jacobi Hospital, where Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Mamdani visited him. Mercedes was released from the hospital on Tuesday as scores of fellow cops cheered him on.

Cops released images of the two suspects and have asked the public's help in locating them. Caraballo, police said, wasn't wearing a shirt at the time of the attack.

Department of Homeland Security officials said Caraballo was arrested by Border Patrol agents when he entered the United States illegally through Arizona in February 2023 and was then released.

Last Oct. 26, Caraballo was charged in the Bronx with gun and ammunition possession after police found a loaded .380-caliber reddish-pink-colored handgun, tucked in his shoe as he sat in a Mercedes, which was illegally parked in front of a fire hydrant, according to a criminal complaint.

A prosecutor asked for $30,000 bail, but a Bronx Criminal Court judge ordered Caraballo released without bail and enrolled in a supervised release program that would e

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