The Bronx
■ Police are questioning a correction officer who allegedly fatally shot his son-in-law in Wakefield, police sources said.
The men were arguing in the lobby of an apartment building at East 242nd Street and Barnes Avenue at 12:40 a.m. Thursday, according to police.
The woman’s correction-offcer dad pulled a pistol and shot the victim in the head, cops said.
The victim, identified as Vonde Cabbagestalk, 21, had earlier argued with the mother of his child.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, cops said.
The father-in-law told investigators he had acted in self-defense. Charges have not yet been filed.
Cabbagestalk had prior arrests, for jumping a turnstile and trespassing, and a slew of sealed arrests, cops said.
Investigators are still trying to determine if Cabbagestalk had lunged for the gun, the sources said.
The older man told cops his son-in-law had done so, the sources said.
■ Cops are looking for a man who snatched cash out of a woman’s hands at a West Bronx check-cashing store, cops said.
The 60-year-old victim was at Pay-O-Matic on East 180th Street near Third Avenue at 10:15 a.m. on March 1 when a man walked up and wrested an unknown sum of cash from her grip, cops said.
The suspect is described as 5-foot-9 and 160 pounds.
He was last seen wearing a green bubble coat and a black hood.
■ A man crept into the bedroom window of a woman’s apartment in Fordham Heights and stole thousands of dollars worth of electronics, jewelry and cash, cops said.
The man sneaked into the apartment on Creston Avenue near East 184th Street while nobody was home at 8:30 p.m. on March 5, cops said.
He grabbed a book bag and filled it with two laptop computers, two tablets, gold rings, necklaces, bracelets and $2,025 in cash, cops said.
The suspect was seen on surveillance video leaving the building with the book bag slung over his back, said law-enforcement authorities.
■ Cops placed a 19-year-old man under arrest in connection with the slaying of a Bronx man who died defending his mother from an assault last Sunday, cops said.
Daquan Lanier was arrested Thursday on charges of murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon after he shot Tony Burgess, 24, in the head, police said.
Burgess was rushed to Lincoln Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, according to officials.
Brooklyn
■ A 43-year-old driver fatally struck an elderly woman in Sheepshead Bay and was slapped with two summonses, police said.
The victim, identified as Pei Yao Wu, 82, was at East 16th Street and Gravesend Neck Road at around 8 a.m. Friday when an SUV plowed into her, cops said.
The victim was in the marked crosswalk, according to police.
The SUV driver remained at the scene and was issued two summonses: failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care, cops said.
Wu was rushed to Coney Island Hospital where she died a short time later, cops said.
Manhattan
■ Authorities have identified a man wanted for questioning in a string of Manhattan bank robberies this month.
According to police, 40-year-old James Walton on three occasions passed a demand not to a teller, cops said.
On March 6 at 12:25 p.m., he entered the HSBC branch on Fifth Avenue near East 21st Street in the Flatiron District and left with $250, cops said.
On March 8 at 11:30 a.m., he hit the HSBC branch on Broadway near West 39th Street in Midtown and scored $1,745, cops said.
On Monday at 11 a.m., he entered the Capital One bank on University Place near St. Marks Place in Noho and walked out with $1,700.
Walton is described as 5-foot-11 and 160 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes, cops said.