Nabbed for hitting with coffee pot

Arrest in B’klyn project killing

A Bronx McDonald’s worker wasn’t lovin’ it when an customer tried to climb through the drivethru window, so she smashed a coffee pot over his head, police said Friday.

Emonie Reed was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and weapons possession for the Thursday clash at the Boston Road outlet near Seabury Place in Crotona.

Reed, 24, was working about 11:20 p.m. when a 29-year-old man came up the drive-thru window and began arguing with her, cops said.

The customer spit at Reed and tried to climb through the window, but Reed stopped him and smashed a hot water-filled coffee pot over his head, police said.

The shattered glass cut the victim’s neck, sending him to St. Barnabas Hospital with serious injuries.

Reed was released on her own recognizance after her arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court Friday.

Police have arrested the man they say killed a Vietnam War vet and choked the victim’s friend inside a Brooklyn apartment.

The NYPD’s Regional Task Force nabbed Jose Mendoza, 34, in Yonkers Thursday afternoon and charged him with murder and assault for the fatal Feb. 7 attack that police believe was drug related.

Victim Leslie Lee, 72, a

Vietnam War vet and retired MTA conductor, was found beaten and strangled inside a friend’s apartment on W.

11th St. near Avenue W in the Marlboro Houses. Lee lived in another building in the Gravesend housing complex, cops said.

Lee’s friend, a 64-year-old woman, was also beaten and choked in the apartment. She lost consciousness but survived, authorities said. Mendoza then ran off with Lee’s keys, a cellphone and money from both victims, prosecutors said at his arraignment Friday, where the suspect was ordered held without bail.

Lee (inset) had a drug problem and starting hanging out with a bad crowd after his wife died in 2017, a police source said.

Despite his addiction, neighbors referred to the beloved war veteran as the “mayor of the project.”