Crooks botch rob job when till won’t open

A crook was caught on camera holding up a Brooklyn deli at gunpoint but leaving emptyhanded when he couldn’t figure out how to open the cash register, police said Tuesday.

The robber and an accomplice acting as a lookout targeted the Thunder Deli on Nostrand Ave. near Sterling Place in Crown Heights about 12:50 a.m. Oct. 21.

The lookout pretended to buy a beverage, then grabbed the 37-year-old clerk’s hand and restrained him as the robber rushed behind the store counter.

The robber pointed a black gun at the worker while pawing at the cash register trying to get its drawer to open, video released by cops shows.

Both the robber and his accomplice fled.

Cops are asking the public’s help identifying the suspects and tracking them down.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

The teen girl hit by a stray bullet in Queens on Monday was shot during an attempt to kill a 16-year-old boy — just two days after a botched hit on the same targeted teen ended with an innocent 14-year-old being fatally shot as he played basketball, police sources said.

Ashley Armoogan, 16, is recovering from a gunshot to her shoulder after an errant round hit her near the New Dawn Charter High School II on 161st St. near 89th Ave. in Jamaica Hills about 3:55 p.m. Monday.

The outcome was far different for Aamir Griffin, 14, on Friday night. In that tragedy, a gunman who was aiming for the same target as in Monday’s shooting opened fire from almost 300 feet away from Griffin as he played basketball outside the Baisley Park Houses in Jamaica, sources said. One slug hit Griffin in the neck, killing him.