Brooklyn
A car’s rear window was busted in an apparently botched burglary, a Bedford-Stuyvesant resident said. Anya Jacobson, 28, had parked her 2008 Toyota Yaris hatchback in front of the Sumner Hotel on Sumner Place near Flushing Avenue Sunday at 6 p.m. and discovered the smashed glass Monday at 9 a.m., she said. “I am shocked and infuriated to see this type of behavior still happening in this neighborhood,” Jacobson said. “I feel violated, I thought we had moved beyond this as a community.” Nothing was taken from the car, according to the owner.
A man was found shot to death on a Canarsie street Sunday evening, cops said. Police responding to 911 calls for an assault discovered Shakim Rivera, 27, lying face up on Bayview Place near East 92nd Street at about 6:30 p.m. The man, believed to be in his 30s, was shot once in the back of the head and was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
A 52-year-old man was killed and a teen was wounded in an East Flatbush shooting Sunday night, authorities said. The unidentified murder victim was shot several times on East 52nd Street and Winthrop Street shortly before 11 p.m., cops said. He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, cops said. A 16-year-old boy also was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition after EMS found him with a gunshot wound to the arm a block away at East 51st Street and Rutland Road, according to police. There have been no arrests and circumstances surrounding the shooting remain unclear.
Manhattan
A man was slashed in the face outside a Midtown deli after he argued with another man early Saturday, authorities said.The dispute began inside Manhattan Gourmet Deli on Sixth Avenue at about midnight before the suspect followed the victim outside and cut him above the left eye with a boxcutter, cops said. The thug then fled south on Sixth Avenue and west on West 55th Street, cops added. The victim was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was treated and released. The suspect was described as approximately 5-foot-11 and 190-pounds. He was last seen wearing a black ski hat, white sneakers and a black jacket.
Queens
A woman in Elmhurst was fatally struck by a box truck in a hit-and-run Sunday night, police said. The unidentified victim was in a crosswalk at Woodside Avenue around 8:40 p.m. when the 2000 Mitsubishi box truck, traveling south on 76th Street, turned left and hit the woman, police said. The driver, Valentine Gonzalez, 27, had no license and fled the scene, cops said. Police caught up with him on 73rd Street and 41st Avenue shortly after and cuffed the driver, cops said. Gonzalez was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, and was given a violation for driving without a license.
Staten Island
A Staten Island man allegedly spray-painted anti-Semitic and other graffiti on banks throughout New Dorp. Police sources say Vincent Rodriguez, 26, sprayed “End the Fed Jews” and “F–k Obama” on a handful of banks beginning Feb. 12 until Feb. 18. Rodriguez was charged with 11 counts of making graffiti, according to police.
A Brooklyn man was busted for drunken driving in Staten Island last week, according to court sources. Carlos Sanchez, 38, allegedly registered a .126 on a Breathalyzer after cops pulled over his 2014 Kia for going 68 mph in a 50 mph zone on the West Shore Expressway, sources said. Officials said Sanchez’s eyes were bloodshot and watery, and his breath smelled of alcohol. Sanchez was given another Breathalyzer at the 120th Precinct station house, where his blood-alcohol level allegedly was .116. The legal limit for driving is .008. Sanchez was booked for driving under the influence/first offense.