NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
Brooklyn
The suspect pictured above and an accomplice robbed two teens in Coney Island, authorities said.
The victims, both 14, were at West Brighton Avenue and Ocean Parkway when the thieves approached them and demanded their cellphones on Dec. 13 at about 3 p.m., police said.
The boys turned over their valuables after the men threatened to shoot them, officials said.
A teenager was shot dead in the lobby of an East Flatbush apartment building, cops said.
Deshonne Mitchell, 19, was shot in the back Sunday at 156 E. 52nd St. at around 3:30 p.m.
He was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.
A 39-year-old man was killed by a hit-and-run driver Monday in East New York, authorities said.
Jeans Guerrero was struck at Sheffield and Jamaica avenues at around 4 a.m.
Police found him lying in the street with severe body trauma.
Guerrero was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital.
The driver of the vehicle is a woman in her 20s or 30s.
The Bronx
Three men are wanted for shooting an innocent bystander during a fight in Mount Hope, authorities said Monday.
The thugs were arguing with an unidentified person in front of a building on East 175th Street near Walton Avenue when one of them pulled out a gun at around 7 p.m. Oct. 30.
The gunman fired off six or seven shots in the direction of the intended target, but accidentally struck a 21-year-old man who was not involved in the dispute.
The victim was treated at an area hospital and released.
Police said all three men wanted in the shooting are in their 20s.
The suspect pictured above and some cohorts tried to steal a 20-year-old man’s cellphone outside a Mount Hope subway station, authorities said.
The victim had just exited the Tremont Avenue D train station when five men approached him at around 10:10 p.m. Dec. 3.
When one of them asked him for the time, the victim pulled out his phone and answered him.
Before the victim could put the phone back in his pocket, the suspect knocked him to the ground and tried to grab the phone, cops said.
The victim got back up and ran.
The suspect in the photo is about 18 years old and wore a black, hooded sweat shirt with the word “Levis” across the chest, and black pants.
The other suspects were men and women of the same age range.
Manhattan
Police have released a photo of a suspect in the death of a vagrant in Midtown.
The suspect was seen on surveillance at a convenience store a short time after he fatally shot Terrance Walker, 27, at Sixth Avenue and West 40th Street at around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, police said.
The two men had been arguing near Bryant Park as they were walking out of a nearby subway station before the suspect (above) pulled out the gun and fired four shots, striking Walker once in the chest, cops said. Walker was declared dead at the scene.
The gunman is around 6foot-1 and is in his 20s or 30s, cops said.
He has a goatee and wore a heavy black coat, black cap and black pants.
Police have nabbed a suspect and his pal in a Times Square stabbing, police sources said Monday.
Cops apprehended a man they believe stabbed two people during a fight in front of Madame Tussauds wax museum on West 42nd Street at around 2:15 a.m. Sunday, the sources said.
They also took into custody the suspect’s female friend, who is being questioned as a witness, the sources said.
The two victims, both 25, allegedly got into a fight with the suspect, who pulled out a knife and stabbed one in the chest, leaving him critically injured, the sources said.
The other victim was stabbed in the shoulder and was listed in stable condition, they said.
One of the victims told officers that the suspect tried to get them to give him $40, but investigators are not buying that story, the sources said.
The fight may have stemmed from something that happened between the woman and the victims, the sources said.