NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
Brooklyn
A would-be home invader slashed a Brownsville mom and her two kids in Brooklyn, according to police Monday.
The 38-year-old woman was just outside her apartment on Kings Highway at around 4 p.m. Sunday when the stranger rushed at her and tried to get inside the home, drawing a knife when she resisted, cops said.
Her two boys, 11 and 13, bravely rushed to her side to help her fight him off, shoving him away and locking the apartment door before calling 911, police said.
All three were injured in the struggle, with the children cut on their hands and their mother on her face, according to authorities.
The man fled before cops arrived, and the family was treated at Brookdale Hospital, authorities said. All were in stable condition.
The attacker, who was wearing a black bubble jacket, is about 5-foot-5, in his early 20s, with dreadlocks and a face tattoo, police said.
Three suspects broke into an apartment in East New York and stole two flatscreen TVs, authorities said.
The suspects (inset) circumvented an alarm system in the residence at Ridgewood Avenue and Essex Street and grabbed the appliances at around 5:45 a.m. Thursday.
They fled down Essex Street.
They are between 5-foot-8 and 6-feet tall and wore dark hoodies.
Manhattan
One man slashed another in the face during an altercation on a No. 3 subway train on the Upper West Side, cops said.
The victim, 26, was attacked just before 11 p.m. Sunday after he stepped on the other man’s foot, according to police sources.
The attacker slashed him in the forehead before fleeing the train at 72nd Street and Broadway, the sources said.
The victim was in serious condition at Saint Luke’s Hospital, but is expected to survive, according to authorities.
The Bronx
These two men (above) are suspected of using a Fordham Manor woman’s debit card to make $1,500 in purchases, authorities said Monday.
The victim discovered that her card was missing at around 11:30 p.m. Dec. 9 at her home at Oliver Place and Webster Avenue, officials said.
She was later informed by her bank that the card had been used to purchase goods at several Bronx businesses between Dec. 7 and Dec. 9, according to cops.
One suspect, captured on surveillance video, wore a black hooded sweatshirt, a black jacket and black pants.
The other wore a black knit cap and a black and gray hooded sweater, police said.
Someone burglarized three Soundview business in a little more than two hours, authorities said Monday.
The suspect entered a nail salon on Westchester Avenue by breaking a lock off the front door at around 6 p.m. Jan. 2, officials said.
He grabbed $355, authorities said.
At around 8 p.m., he cut a padlock off a roll-up gate at the N&K Variety Store on Westchester Avenue and stole $4,800 from a safe inside, cops said.
About 15 minutes later, he cut another lock off a gate at another nail salon down the block and took $200, police said.
The suspect (above) is about 5-foot-10 and weighs approximately 200 pounds. He wore a dark jacket, dark pants and black sneakers, cops said.
Police have released surveillance footage of a man suspected in the fatal shooting of a mother of four boys — and are asking for the public’s help identifying him.
The video shows the suspect (inset) walking down the street at around the time Cindy Diaz was killed outside a West Farms bodega on Boston Road on Friday evening.
Diaz, 48, had stopped at a local McDonald’s and was carrying food back to her apartment for her sons when she was shot, according to police.
The suspect was aiming at an 18-year-old rival when he killed Diaz, police said.
He also wounded his intended target, striking him in the arm, according to cops.
But the teen was uncooperative when questioned by police.