NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
The Bronx
The man pictured above is wanted in several street robberies in Castle Hill, authorities said.
The suspect, identified as 28yearold Shamor Draper, first struck at about 7 a.m. on Nov. 30, approaching a 16yearold boy on Seward Avenue, menacingly asking him if he wanted to see a gun and then taking his cellphone, cops said.
Two days later, the suspect robbed three people in separate incidents, police said.
He first walked up to a 15yearold boy at Randall and Pugsley avenues at about 4:40 p.m.
The suspect suggested he had a gun and took the kid’s phone, authorities said.
Fifteen minutes later, the suspect robbed a 14yearold boy of a phone on the same corner, claiming to have a gun and threatening to shoot him, cops said.
At about 10 p.m. at Watson and Taylor avenues, the suspect again claimed to have a gun and intimidated a 24yearold man into giving up his wallet, authorities said.
Manhattan
A thief robbed a Midtown jewelry store, posing as a customer asking to try on a pricey gold chain and then simply fleeing while wearing it, police sources said.
The suspect walked into Ray’s Jewelry Store on Lexington Avenue near East 45th Street at about 5 p.m. Tuesday and asked to see a chain valued at nearly $6,000, the sources said.
An employee handed him the chain, the suspect put it on and then bolted from the store.
The suspect is described as about 25 years old, the
sources said.
Queens
Police are searching for the man who burglarized a Forest Hills residence, authorities said.
The thief entered a firstfloor apartment at 63rd Drive and Fitchett Street via a rear window at about 7 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
He grabbed several electronic devices, jewelry and $60 in cash and then climbed back out the window.
He was described as about 45 years old, 6 feet tall and 170 pounds.
He was last seen wearing a black hat, gray coat and tan pants.
A woman beat up a fellow straphanger who accidentally bumped into her on board a 7 train in Long Island City, authorities said.
The assault took place after they collided while taking seats as the train was nearing the Queensboro Plaza station, cops said.
They exchanged words, and then the attacker lost her cool and pulled the stranger’s hair and punched her in the face, cops said.
The 37yearold victim suffered a dislocated shoulder in the melee.
The suspect got off the train at the Vernon Boulevard/Jackson Avenue station, but the victim snapped the attacker’s photo and gave it to police.
The suspect was described as 35 years old, 5foot4 and 120 pounds.
Brooklyn
Four men pulled off a gunpoint robbery at an apartment in East Flatbush, authorities said.
Three men entered the apartment in a building along Avenue D at about 8:15 p.m. on Nov. 27 while the fourth suspect stayed outside and acted as a lookout, cops said.
Once inside the apartment, the thieves pulled guns and ordered two men to get into a bedroom while a third victim managed to escape out a window.
The suspects (three pictured at left) then ransacked the apartment and stole $1,200 in cash along with several pieces of jewelry and electronics.
All of the suspects were wearing hooded sweat shirts, said authorities.
A guntoting thug opened fire at an East New York subway station, shooting a 35yearold man in the leg, authorities said.
The gunman got into an argument with the victim minutes before the shooting and followed him into the Livonia Avenue station at about 1 a.m. last Thursday, police said.
The suspect (above) then pulled a pistol and shot the man in the leg, and then ran back out of the station, authorities said.
The victim managed to hail a cab back to his apartment and tried to treat the wound himself, but checked into Brookdale Hospital the following day.
The shooter is described as in his 20s or 30s and approximately 5foot7.
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