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FORT GREENE—CLINTON HILL
Left-side lifters
A pair of thieves got away with
less than what they wanted when
they robbed a man on St. Edwards
Street on Feb. 1.
Police said the victim was walking
home near Park Avenue at
8:43pm and noticed there were
two men walking behind him. He
walked into the lobby of his apartment
building and heard a knock
behind him. He opened the door for
the two louts, not realizing their intentions.
One of the men grabbed
the victim while the other tried to
take his phone out of his hands, but,
in the end, they only managed to
grab his left AirPod.
Smart phone swiped
A couple of rogues stole a smart
phone and headphones on DeKalb
Avenue on Feb. 1.
The victim told police he near
Fort Greene Place just after 8pm
when two men approached him
and demanded he hand over his
valuables, and one of the muggers
fl ashed a small knife. They took his
iPhone and Beats Pro airbuds and
made the man give up his phone’s
passcode. Once the phone was unlocked,
they sent a text to an unknown
number and disappeared.
Garb grabber
Some brigand robbed someone
for their backpack and work uniform
on S Portland Avenue on Feb.
2.
It was about 6:30 pm when the victim
was approached by a stranger
near Fulton Street, police said, who
hit the victim with an unknown
item, knocking his Nike bookbag
to the ground. The robber picked
up the bag and ran toward Hanson
Place.
Built different?
Two pirates teamed up to steal
cash and cards on Adelphi Street on
Feb. 1.
Police said the victim was walking
down the street near Myrtle Avenue
at 9pm when two men walked
up to him, showed a knife, and demanded
he hand over his property.
Without giving him time to respond,
one of the rustlers said “I’m built
different,” and forcibly grabbed $20
and a credit card.
Offi cer assault
An angry driver assaulted the
New York City Police Department
traffi c offi cer who ticketed him on
Fort Greene Place on Feb. 4.
The victim said she wrote a
ticket for a double-parked vehicle
near Fulton Street just after 9am
and walked down the block. The
malefactor motorist followed her
and struck up a conversation, then
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started attacking her, punching her
in the face and pushing her into a
car before getting behind her and
wrapping his arms around her
neck, causing bruising.
Construction heist
A sneak-thief stole expensive
construction equipment from a
locked worksite on Myrtle Avenue
sometime between Jan. 28 and 31.
Police said the victim, a worker
with Capstone Construction, secured
the site between Hall and Ryerson
streets and headed home at
4pm on Jan. 28, a Friday. Early on
Monday morning, the project was
brought to a halt when he returned
and found that someone had clipped
the chain and packed up more than
$12,000 in drills, saws, and jackhammers.
Temple invader
A burglar allegedly tried to steal
an array of clothes and equipment
from the Brooklyn Masonic Temple
on Clermont Avenue on Feb. 3.
The victim called police to report
that a robber entered the building
unlawfully just after 7pm and
broke the padlocks on several lockers,
gathering up the contents of
each. The sneak was caught standing
behind a door with an armful of
liquor, religious regalia, clothes, a
radio, and a grinder.
Offi cers arrested the man on the
scene.
Cigarette break-in
Just a few minutes for a cigarette
break was enough time for a worm
to gather valuables from an Irving
Place apartment on Feb. 4.
The victim told police that he
stepped outside for a smoke at
around 9pm and left the door to
his apartment near Fulton Street
unlocked while he was outside. He
headed inside and went to bed, but
woke up to a notifi cation that his
card had been used and the realization
that his backpack, which was
stuffed with his laptop, wallet, and
medication, was gone.
Immigration imitators
Some good-for-nothings called
a Brooklyn resident on Jan. 27 posing
as immigration offi cers and demanding
money.
Police said the victim was at
home on Washington Avenue when,
at about 4pm, she received a call
from an unknown number. The
goons on the other side of the line
said they were immigration enforcement
offi cers and that she needed to
send money or risk deportation. She
sent more than $2,000 in Zelle payments
and Target giftcards.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
Rapper Tdott Woo
killed in Canarsie
Police investigate the scene of the fatal shooting of rapper Tdott Woo in Canarsie
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
BY BEN BRACHFELD
A gunman fatally shot local
rapper Tdott Woo outside his Canarsie
home on Tuesday afternoon.
The rising star, widely known
for creating the viral Woo Walk
dance, was shot in the head at
about 2:22 pm Tuesday afternoon
outside his home on Avenue
L in Canarsie. The 22-year-old
star, whose birth name was Tahjay
Dobson, was taken to Brookdale
Hospital where he was pronounced
dead, police say. No
suspects have yet been identifi ed
and it’s unclear what may have
prompted the shooting.
Just hours earlier, Tdott Woo
had signed a recording contract
with Million Dollar Music, the
company had announced on Instagram.
“Just know his legacy will always
live, from his laugh to the
dance everyone across the world
does,” the company said in an Instagram
post following news of
his death. “Some of us know him
a friend, brother, cousin or just a
fan but we all come together to
tell you FLY HIGH.”
The rapper, a noted proponent
of Brooklyn’s drill scene,
had just returned on Monday
from Los Angeles, where he had
been shooting a music video,
his grandmother told the Daily
News.
Tdott was known to be a
friend of Pop Smoke, the vaunted
Canarsie rapper who was fatally
gunned down in Los Angeles
in Feb. 2020, when he was just
20-years-old.
Tdott’s death came just days
after another rising Brooklyn
drill artist, Nas Blixky, was left
in critical condition after being
shot in the head.
As violence continues to befall
Brooklyn’s hip hop community,
some are calling for young
stars to tone down their diss
tracks, with an eye towards their
personal safety.
“All these young n—-s, they
got heat, I ain’t gon’ lie,” Flatbush
rapper 22Gz told HipHopDX
last month. “They got heat.
They doing they thing. Just
gotta dumb they dissin’ down
cause n—-s don’t hear you, n—-s
straight hear the dissin’ and say
f–k the whole song, ya heard?”
Meanwhile, Hot97’s DJ
Drewski says that he will no longer
play any “diss/gang music”
that he feels is playing a part in
the outbreak of violence among
Brooklyn’s young rap scene.
“If ya dissing each other in
the songs, don’t even send it to
me,” Drewski said in an Instagram
story. “If you make drill
music, there are a lot of drill
songs without dissing your opps
or smokin on your opps! Step
up your pen game and creativity!
No reason why every week
someone is getting locked up or
killed. I can’t change the world,
but I can stop supporting the
nonsense.”