Brooklyn
■ Cops are asking for the public’s help in finding four suspects who allegedly beat a transgender man nearly to death while shouting anti-gay remarks in Bushwick.
The 28-year-old victim was on Bushwick Avenue near Weirfield Street at about 11:20 p.m. Sunday when he was jumped from behind by four men who punched and kicked him and hit him in the head with a Plexiglas board, causing serious trauma, authorities said.
The victim was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital where he’s in critical condition.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
■ The arrests of two men caught tampering with an ATM in Bath Beach have put a dent in an international skimming operation, according to authorities.
Elvin Pineda, 25, and Luis Fernandez, 28, were taking apart a TD Bank cash machine on Shore Parkway, near Bay Parkway at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday when cops on patrol caught them in the act, police said.
The duo allegedly confessed to having tampered with ATMs in the past and shipping the parts to China to be duplicated and used for skimming devices, cops added.
Pineda admitted storing skimming equipment in his Coney Island home, and there cops found several hundred credit cards, laptops, printers and laminators, police said.
Pineda was charged with possession of a forgery device, possession of a forged instrument, possession of a skimmer device and criminal mischief.
Fernandez was charged with criminal mischief, grand larceny and identity theft, police said.
■ Police are on the hunt for a motorist suspected in a fatal Williamsburg hit-and-run, authorities said.
Cops said Thursday that 35-year-old Miguel Morales was in a 2013 Nissan Altima that struck 27-year-old Felipe Castro at Seventh Street and Third Avenue at 7:30 a.m. on May 10.
Castro suffered severe head trauma and died at Methodist Hospital.
Cops arrested a suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man in a hallway at the Surfside Houses in Coney Island.
The body of George Carmona was found with a single bullet to the head at about 8:15 p.m. on Sept. 30, in a 17th-floor hallway of his building at 2980 West 28th St., police said.
On Wednesday, police arrested Jalik Banks, 19, and charged him with murder and weapon possession, law-enforcement authorities said.
The Bronx
■ A man was fatally stabbed in Mott Haven Thursday morning, police said.
The 50-year-old victim was found with stab wounds to the back of the head and chest at the Lozada Playground on East 135th Street between Alexander and Willis avenues at approximately 9 a.m., cops said.
EMS rushed the mortally wounded victim to Lincoln Hospital but he died
en route, law-enforcement authorities said.
Police are withholding the victim’s name pending family notification.
No arrests have been made.
Manhattan
■ A suspect ripped off a livery-cab driver on the Upper West Side, police said Thursday.
At about 12:40 p.m. on Aug. 22, the suspect got into the car on Amsterdam Avenue and rode to West 106th Street, where he made a grab for the cash in the front seat, cops said.
The 60-year-old driver struggled in vain to thwart the robber, who finally wrested away $170, police added.
The suspect is 5-foot-10 and 155 pounds and was last seen in a gray polo shirt with a yellow collar, blue jeans and a white belt.
A drunken teen texting while driving rammed into another car in Eltingville, then tried to remove the license plates of his wrecked vehicle, authorities said.
Justin Lorelli, 17, smashed his black Chevy Malibu into a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee near Seidman Avenue and Oakdale Street at about 11:20 p.m. last Friday, a Criminal Court complaint states.
He allegedly left his wrecked ride in the middle of the road, tried to remove his plates, then jumped into a nearby car with Pennsylvania tags being driven by a woman, sources said.
Cops said that when they pulled up to the woman’s car, the male suspect admitted, “I was texting someone and I hit a car.”
He was charged with DWI and resisting arrest.