The Bronx
Police are on the hunt for a teenage boy (above) who choked a 15-year-old girl on an Olinville street earlier this month. The assailant, who is believed to be between 16 and 19 years old, approached the victim from behind on the northeast corner of White Plains Road and East 217th Street on April 11 at 7:40 a.m., cops said. The suspect, pictured here, then placed both his hands on the girl’s neck, choking her. The boy then fled on White Plains Road. The victim did not lose consciousness but experienced dizziness, police said. She refused medical attention. The boy, who was captured on surveillance video, is 5-foot-7 and 145 pounds.
Manhattan
A man staying at a homeless shelter on Wards Island slashed another homeless man in the face at the facility Friday night, police sources said. The victim, identified as Samuel Morales, 55, was slashed after he got into a dispute with Ramseur Portland, 53, at around 11:15 p.m. at the shelter on Sunken Garden Loop, the sources said. Portland was arrested at the scene and charges were pending. Morales was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Two teens were stabbed during a dispute outside an East Harlem public-housing development Friday evening, police said. The violence broke out at 112th Street and Lexington Avenue, outside the James Weldon Johnson Houses, at about 5:45 p.m., authorities said. The victims, ages 16 and 17, were stabbed in the torso and taken to Harlem Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No arrests have been made.
The 2006 death of a 70-year-old man who was found with burns and stab wounds to his body inside a Lower East Side building more than a decade ago, has been ruled a homicide, officials said Saturday. Emergency responders discovered Serafin Vasquez with burns to his arms, legs and torso, and stab wounds to his head and body in his home at 120 E. Fourth St. on Sept. 15, 2005, at around 3 p.m. He died Feb. 25, 2006. The death was initially classified as undetermined, a spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner’s Office said. But the case was reopened this past March and reclassified as a homicide.
Two men were slashed during a dispute in the East Village early Saturday, police said. The victims, ages 24 and 25, were on East Third Street at around 3:20 a.m. when they got into an argument with unknown men, cops said. One was slashed in the left hand and over the left eye and the other was stabbed in the left thigh. The victims made their own way to Bellevue Hospital, where they were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. No arrests have been made.
Queens
A 48-year-old woman was punched by another woman (pictured above right) aboard a subway train in Astoria on Friday, cops said. Initially, the attacker got into an argument with a different woman, but then accused the victim of staring at her before she slugged her, cops said. The suspect snatched the victim’s cellphone out of her hand as she attempted to call 911 at around 2 p.m. and when the train doors opened at the 46th Street station she threw the phone onto the platform, causing the screen to shatter, cops said. The victim, who managed to snap a photo of her attacker, got off the train to retrieve her phone and the suspect fled.
A 26-year-old man was stabbed during a fight in the parking lot of a Chinese supermarket in Flushing Friday night, authorities said. The brawl, which broke out at about 9:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Yong Fa Supermarket on Main Street near 59th Avenue, escalated when a man stabbed the 26-year-old victim twice in the stomach. The victim is in serious condition, but cops are calling his injuries non-life-threatening. The suspect was arrested on the scene.
Brooklyn
A masked crook held up a Sheepshead Bay gas station on Friday, police said. The NYPD released surveillance video that shows the man inside a BP station on Avenue U at around 5:40 p.m. demanding money from the attendant while simulating a firearm inside his pocket. The man got away with $1,000 before fleeing south on Gerritsen Avenue in a silver Ford Expedition. No one was injured. Police described the man, pictured here, as 5-foot-10, 160 pounds and between 40 and 50 years old. He wore glasses, a camouflage baseball cap, beige pants, an olive-colored jacket, a camouflage mask and tan shoes.