MANHATTAN
Two robbers – one toting a .357 Magnum – were busted yesterday after they snatched a large quantity of jewelry from a store near Grand Central Terminal, police said. The robbery began at 10 a.m. at Goldrush Jewelry on East 42nd Street near Madison Avenue where Tyrell Eggelston, 25, and Arnaldo Smalls, 17, entered and announced a stickup, police said. The suspects forced customers and employees to the back of the store before fleeing with an undetermined amount of jewelry. Two police officers nabbed the assailants at the rail terminal a block away, after a brief chase on foot. Both suspects were charged with robbery, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.
A young man was almost killed early yesterday after he carjacked a woman at gunpoint, led police on a high-speed chase through Harlem and crashed into a wall at City College, a police source said. The incident began around 4:30 a.m. when Warren Mcree, 28, ripped off Karen Sawyer’s 1998 black Chevy Malibu in Jersey City and drove into Manhattan, the source said. Sawyer, 25, notified cops, who put out a description of the car. Detectives from Manhattan North Anti-Crime saw the vehicle and gave chase. The speeding Malibu lost control, plowed through scaffolding and crashed into a wall on Convent Avenue and West 136th Street, the source said. Mcree was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in critical condition. No one else was hurt.
A 72 year-old bicyclist was struck and killed by a city bus on the Upper East Side yesterday evening, police said.
The accident occurred just before 5:30 p.m. when the bus – traveling northbound on York Avenue – started to make a left turn onto East 91st Street.
That’s when the Upper East Side man, who was in the intersection, was hit – suffering severe head injuries. He was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Hospital.
BROOKLYN
A 68-year-old woman was struck and killed by a truck yesterday during a hit-and-run incident in Brighton Beach, police said. The incident occurred about 8 a.m. when the unidentified woman stepped off a Q train, came down a flight of stairs from the elevated platform and crossed Coney Island Avenue, a police source said. A sanitation worker said he heard screams and called 911. Police responded and discovered the mangled body of the woman lying in a pool of blood, sources said. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
QUEENS
A burglar was arrested yesterday as he fled empty-handed from Thomas Edison HS in Jamaica, police said. The incident unfolded around 3 a.m. when cops responded to a call of an alarm going off at the school on 84th Avenue and 165th Place. Police said they noticed James Parks, 32, climbing out a broken window and arrested him. Parks was charged with burglary. In an unrelated incident, Parks was linked through a fingerprint to a burglary at St. Francis Preparatory HS on Francis Lewis Boulevard last Sunday, police said. He allegedly set fire to the cafeteria, causing extensive damage. He was charged with arson and burglary.
A taxi driver was killed yesterday after his cab exploded into flames during a hit-and-run in Woodside, police said. The incident occurred about 4:30 a.m. on Northern Boulevard and Broadway where an unidentified man driving a Cadillac crashed into the back of the yellow cab standing at a red light, cops said. The Cadillac driver fled on foot. The victim, whose name was not released, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Cops said yesterday they identified the 17-year-old who was killed when his motorcycle collided with a truck in Bayside. On Thursday, Matthew Conticelli was cruising with another 17-year-old north on Utopia Parkway where he collided with a truck as he tried to make a right turn on 50th Avenue, police said. Conticelli was taken to New York Hospital of Elmhurst, where he was pronounced dead. The teenage girl, whose name was not released, riding with him was taken to the same hospital in stable condition.