BROOKLYN
* A 14-month-old East New York child was beaten to death, officials said yesterday.
Cops said Teira Lewis became ill late Thursday night.
“The mother said that the baby threw up at 11:30 [p.m.],” a source said.
When the mother, Antigua Lucas, 19, woke up at 2:15 a.m., she found Teira not breathing and frantically ran into the street where she stopped a private sanitation truck, whose crew called 911.
It initially appeared that bruising on the baby may have occurred during CPR, but the Medical Examiner’s Office found the tot died of “blunt-impact injuries with skull fractures,” a spokeswoman said.
Lucas was questioned by cops, but was not under arrest as of late yesterday. Cops said that the family had no previous domestic-violence reports.
MANHATTAN
* A Washington Heights man was slain during a home-invasion robbery early yesterday while his wife watched helplessly, police sources said.
Kelly Diaz, 24, was at home with his wife, Yeame Duran, 23, at 2:55 a.m. when three masked robbers broke through the door of their Wadsworth Avenue apartment, the sources said.
The thieves bound Diaz and Duran, ransacked the house and then one of them shot Diaz in the head, cops sources said.
Diaz was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS, but his wife was apparently unharmed.
No arrests have been made, police said, and the investigation is ongoing.
* A Holocaust survivor and psychologist was killed in a car smash with a city bus near the Brooklyn Bridge, police said.
Pierre Haber, 75, of Manhattan, was driving his 1999 Mercedes eastbound on Frankfort Street at 5 p.m. Thursday when he rear-ended a stopped city bus at the intersection of Pearl Street, cops said.
Haber was taken to Beekman Downtown Hospital, where he died.
Police believe a medical condition caused the crash and the city medical examiner determined that Haber died of heart disease.
QUEENS
* A brazen thief grabbed a 15-year-old boy’s cellphone in broad daylight in Jamaica, officials said yesterday.
At 1:15 p.m. on Thursday at 164th Street and Hillside Avenue, Joseph Livingston, 16, allegedly grabbed the victim and put him in a headlock.
Livingston then dragged him to a secluded area and threatened to stab him if he didn’t give up his phone, the officials said.
Livingston pummeled the unnamed victim in the eye and stomach, grabbed the phone and fled.
Cops later recovered the phone and Livingston is reported to have confessed.
He was arraigned yesterday on robbery and assault charges and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
* A team of bandits carjacked a 44-year-old man at gunpoint in Jamaica, officials said yesterday.
The duo, Darnell Best and Kareem Morrison, ran up to the victim just after 9:15 p.m. on Oct. 8 near 138th Place and Jamaica Avenue, the sources said.
Morrison allegedly pulled a silver handgun, pistol-whipped the victim, snatched the keys to his van and drove off.
The van was recovered two weeks later.
Best was arrested Thursday on armed-robbery charges. He faces 25 years in prison if convicted.
Morrison is being held in Nassau County on unrelated charges.
* A Jamaica man was busted for driving wildly after he tried to hide a stash of drugs, officials said yesterday.
On Thursday, undercover cops watched as Jonathan Persaud, 20, placed a bag of drugs under the hood of a 2006 Kia at around 2 p.m. near Murdock Avenue and 208th Street.
They saw him get in the car and drive erratically, running a stop sign before almost hitting their unmarked car.
Persaud jumped out of the moving car and fell down, sources said. He picked himself up, drew a pistol and ran toward the cops, who apprehended him.
Police found two hollow-point shells in his .380 pistol and five bags of crack in the car.
Persaud, who was arraigned on attempted-murder and other charges, faces 25 years in prison if convicted.
STATEN ISLAND
* A motorist was busted for a drunken smash-up just blocks from his New Springville home, officials said yesterday.
Jay Napolitano, 54, was heading home in his 2004 Mercedes on Thursday at 8 p.m. when he crossed a double yellow line and struck another car head-on near the corner of Arlene Street and Dawson Court, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
When cops arrived on the scene, they noticed that Napolitano’s eyes were bloodshot and his breath smelled of booze.
Napolitano was taken to Staten Island Hospital where he allegedly refused to take a blood-alcohol test.
* A serial shoplifter tried to use the “five-finger discount” at the Staten Island Mall but got pinched, officials said yesterday.
On Oct. 1, Adreala Ames, 37, of Fox Hills, along with an accomplice, allegedly grabbed three bags of merchandise worth just under $600 from Touch of Elegance and fled.
Ames was nabbed Thursday after she was ID’d by the mall’s video-surveillance system. She was charged with criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny.
Ames, who had been barred from entering the mall for life due to “excessive shoplifting,” was also charged with trespassing.
The accomplice is still at large.
* A Dongan Hills man was accused of beating his girlfriend with The Club as they sat inside his car, officials said yesterday.
Henry Dumorney, 23, was arguing with his girlfriend at around 4:30 p.m. in Old Town when he began beating her with the metal anti-theft device on the head, chest arms and body, Donovan’s spokesman said.
The girlfriend, 30, suffered bruises on her chest and arms.
Dumorney faces assault and weapons charges.