BROOKLYN
* A 25-year-old man was killed after being gunned down on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street last night, cops said.
John McFadden, of Wyona Street, was in front of a Ralph Avenue building when an unknown gunman shot him in the head at 9:30 p.m., police said. It was unclear what sparked the fatal gunplay.
McFadden was rushed to Saint Mary’s Hospital where he died almost a half-an-hour later. (lcf)
* An auxiliary police officer beat the 10-year-old son of his woman friend and lashed him with a cord in East New York, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
The incident took place around 3 p.m. Monday, when the boy was playing basketball in the living room of his mother’s Pennsylvania Avenue apartment.
Lasean Wharton, an auxiliary cop dating the mother, walked in and asked the boy if he was playing basketball. The boy lied, saying he wasn’t.
Wharton, 27, became Angry and hit the boy with an extension cord, sources said.
The next day, the boy’s friend reported the incident to school officials and police were notified.
Wharton was charged with assault, menacing and harassment.
* An unlicensed driver threatened to kill another motorist, chasing him with a knife in a road-rage incident in Brownsville, police sources said yesterday.
Reginald Broughton, 36, was driving his Jeep Mountaineer at Willmohr Street and Rockaway Parkway at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday when he got into an argument with another driver, Oladeinde Aiyeku, sources said.
The two men got out of their vehicles, and Broughton pulled a knife and began chasing Aiyeku, sources said.
As a witness called 911, the men got back in their vehicles and took off.
Aiyeku then flagged down two cops, who arrested Broughton when he stopped at a red light at Kings Highway and Rockaway Parkway.
Broughton was charged with menacing, harassment and weapons possession. Police sources said Broughton has had his license suspended 15 times.
* Two teens were arrested for bashing a woman with a broomstick in Crown Heights, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Candice Mack and Sally Magwood, both 16, argued with Kenya Wiltsie, 24, who was carrying packages and a broomstick at Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway at 11:46 a.m. Tuesday.
As police arrived, the assailants fled. Officers soon caught Mack and Magwood, both of whom fought the cops before being restrained.
They were charged with assault, menacing and resisting arrest.
* A man in his 20s was shot dead by an assailant who approached and opened fire on an East Flatbush street, police said yesterday.
The victim, whose name was not released, was shot twice around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.
He later died at Kings County Hospital. Police said he had a rap sheet, the details of which were not available.
THE BRONX
* The death of a Parkchester teenager was ruled a homicide yesterday after the medical examiner found a gunshot wound in the back of the teen’s head, police said.
Carnell Harris, 16, was found dead in his bed by his girlfriend on Wednesday afternoon inside his East 180th Street apartment, according to a police source.
Harris – who had cocaine on him when he was found – was shot once in the back of the head in his apartment by an unknown triggerman, the source said. (s, lcf)
* An 18-year-old woman was arrested on gun charges after she was stopped by an NYPD cop for driving without a seat belt in Eastchester, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Whitney Piper was pulled over by the cop at Dyre Avenue and Dark Street around 10 p.m. Tuesday, sources said.
When the officer approached the 2001 Ford Expedition, he saw a .40-caliber gun on the dashboard and arrested Piper on charges of criminal possession of a weapon and possession of ammunition.
QUEENS
* A fifth teenager has been arrested in the vicious bat attack on a Queens man in a case of mistaken identity, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Steven Montano, 16, was held without bail after his arraignment Wednesday in Queens Criminal Court on charges of attempted murder and gang assault, a spokeswoman for Queens DA Richard Brown said.
On May 22, Montano, Ruben Hoffman, 16, Francis Calle, 16, and two 15-year-old boys had a fight with a group of men at 70th Street and 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights, sources said.
They left, but returned later with baseball bats and confronted 20-year- old Fernando Rodriguez, who apparently was not involved in the initial dispute.
Using their weapons, the gang allegedly smashed Rodriguez repeatedly in the head.
Cops arrested four of the suspects. Rodriguez is in a coma at Elmhurst Hospital, but is showing signs of improvement, sources said.
MANHATTAN (lcf)
* A heated argument boiled over into bloodshed last night when a 36-year-old man was shot to death inside his Harlem apartment, cops said.
Nnandi Benjochannan was shot in the head by 61-year-old Ralph Hall after an argument got out of hand inside Benjochannan’s Eight Avenue apartment just after 8:30 p.m., police said. It was not immediately clear what the argument was over.
Benjochannan was declared dead at the scene and Hall, of West 126th Street, was arrested a short time later. Charges against him were still pending last night.
STATEN ISLAND
* Cops arrested two brothers in their late 40s for attacking each other with a stove burner in their Westerleigh home, records show.
Lawrence Nicastro hit his brother, William, in the head with the stove burner and vice versa in the Watchogue Road residence around noon Wednesday, the records say.
Cops were called and arrested the brothers on assault charges. Police do not know the motive.