60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Steak out
Robbers looted fl ank steaks from
a Cropsey Avenue grocery on Sept.
20.
A witness told police that the
shoplifters brandished a gun in the
store at the intersection of Canal
Avenue at around 2:30 am, before
stuffi ng their bags with the meat
and riding off on bikes.
Door kicker
A home breaker stole an elderly
woman’s wallet from her walker
at her Brightwater Court home on
Sept. 23.
The victim told police that the
savage pushed through her front
door at her home between Brighton
Second and Brighton Third streets
at around 2:30 am, before grabbing
the wallet and making off.
Jonesin’
A trio of bandits swiped a bottle
of Svedka from a Stillwell Avenue
on Sept. 24.
An employee told police that the
brutes pushed him inside the store
between Avenue W and Avenue X
at around 6:10 pm, before grabbing
a bottle and walking out. --
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BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Allergy season
A crook snagged allergy medicine
from an 18th Avenue store on
Sept. 23.
A witness told police that the
shoplifter wielded a gun inside the
store between 66th and 67th streets
at around 4:30 pm, before grabbing
the goods and fl eeing undetected,
according to police
Badge Bandit
A thief swiped an MTA badge
from an unlocked vehicle in an
84th Street residential garage on
Sept. 22.
The victim told police that he left
open the door to his garage between
14th and 15th avenue at around 8:30
pm, and when he got back, the badge
was gone.
Package pincher
A bandit nabbed multiple packages
from the lobby of W. 10th Street
apartment building on Sept. 26.
One of the victims told police
that the lout broke in through
the front door of the building between
Quentin Road and Avenue
P at around 3:35 am with a screwdriver,
before snagging the packages
and running off.
— Jessica Parks
COURIER L 8 IFE, OCTOBER 1-7, 2021
Man charged with killing of
four-year-old boy
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Slashed!
A mugger slashed a guy on Flatbush
Avenue Extension on Sept. 25.
The victim told police that the
worm tried to snatch his phone
from his hand near Fulton Street at
around 10:52 pm, before pulling out
a knife and slashing the victim in
the arm.
Knife guy
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
robbing someone at knifepoint
on Lawrence Street on Sept. 24.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly pulled out a knife
The Gowanus Houses in Boerum Hill.
Google
on her near Willoughby Street at
around 8:16 pm, and made off with
her iPhone, AirPods, Coach wallet,
and $55 in cash.
Cops tracked the victim’s cell
phone to Fulton Street and Nostrand
Avenue, and cuffed the 38-yearold
for robbery, felony assault, and
grand larceny.
In the crossfi re
A gunman hit a 19-year-old NYU
student in the arm during a brazen
daylight shooting on Sept. 21 in
crowded MetroTech Center.
The victim told police that he
was walking to class near Jay Street
at around 3:05 pm when he heard
four shots and felt a sharp pain in
his arm.
EMS took the victim to Methodist
Hospital in stable condition.
Iced out
A burglar ripped off an ice cream
shop on Water Street on Sept. 24.
Employees of the store told police
that the crooks snuck into the shop
near Old Fulton Street at around 1
am, and made off with an iPad.
— Ben Verde
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Playground robbery
A pillager stole a woman’s bag
at gunpoint at Fort Greene Park on
Sept. 19.
The victim told police that the
man approached her holding a
handgun near Myrtle Avenue and
N. Portland Avenue, before snagging
her bag and running off.
Chain wallet
A brigand stole a wallet and yellow
chain on N. Elliot Walk on Sept.
20.
The victim told police that the
thief approached them with a black
handgun near Myrtle Avenue, before
stealing their wallet, which contained
the victim’s ID, cash, and cards.
Candy scam
Two pirates stole a man’s debit
card and forced him to help them
take cash from an ATM on Fort
Greene Place on Sept. 23.
The victim told police that the
rustler offered to sell him candy for a
fundraiser, but when the victim took
out his wallet near Fulton Street,
the thief grabbed it and threatened
to harm him if he didn’t walk to a
nearby ATM and withdraw $400.
The marauder then told the man
to walk with him to another ATM
on Flatbush Avenue, but victim was
able to notify a teller at the second
bank that he was being robbed.
Passing notes
A bandit tried to rob a checkcashing
business on Flatbush Avenue
and set it ablaze on Sept. 24.
An employee told police that the
villain slipped her a note inside the
business near Nevins Street asking
for $150, but when the employee
walked away from the window, the
would-be thief poured liquid onto
the slot and unsuccessfully attempted
to set it on fi re.
Phone fi ght
A baddie pushed a man to the
ground on Emerson Place and stole
his iPhone 12 on Sept. 24.
The victim told police that the
brute threw him to the ground near
Willoughby Avenue and sole his
phone.
A witness said she saw two
crooks, not just one, kick him when
he was down.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
BY BEN VERDE
An East New York man has
been charged with murder and
manslaughter after he allegedly
beat a four-year-old boy to death,
according to the Brooklyn District
Attorney’s offi ce.
Authorities claim Jerimiah
Johnson, 27, beat his girlfriend’s
son Jayce Eubanks to death, after
an autopsy on the child showed he
died of blunt force trauma to his
torso.
“The autopsy of this helpless
child revealed that he suffered unthinkable
abuse in his short life
and ultimately died, allegedly at
the hands of this defendant, who
we will now seek to hold accountable,”
said District Attorney Eric
Gonzalez in a statement. “I am
committed to doing everything
possible to protect children in our
communities and to bring cowardly
child abusers to justice.”
According to the District Attorney’s
investigation, on Sept. 12,
the victim’s mother was awoken
at home in the Gowanus Houses
apartment complex on Hoyt Street
at 5:30 am by the defendant. The
defendant, who was holding the
young boy in his arms, told her
that her son was not not breathing.
The child was taken to Brooklyn
Hospital Center where he was
pronounced dead at 6:54 am.
An autopsy found that Eubanks
was suffering from several old
and new injuries at the time of his
death, including multiple bruises
to his body on his limbs, back,
chest, and abdomen, bite marks
on both of his ears, a healing skull
fracture, multiple rib fractures,
and trauma to the stomach.
A judge ordered Johnson be detained
without bail. He is due back
in court in Novemeber, at which
time he faces a sentencing of up to
25 years to life in prison.