84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Downtown shooting
A gunman shot a man in the neck
on Sands Street on Aug. 21.
Patrolling offi cers heard gunshots
and rushed to the scene at
Gold Street just after 3:10 am, where
they found the victim lying on the
ground along with the gun and shell
casings.
Paramedics rushed the victim to
Methodist Hospital in stable condition,
according to police reports.
Blade bandit
A knife-toting knave stole keys
from a Gold Street apartment building
on Aug. 18.
The victim told police that the
knife-wielding pilferer swiped the
keys from a table in the common
area of the building at Myrtle Avenue
around 5:10 am, before cursing
out the victim and threatening him
with the blade.
Bricked!
Police arrested a man for allegedly
throwing a brick through a
cop car window on Fulton Street on
Aug. 20.
A traffi c enforcement agent told
her NYPD colleagues that she was
sitting in her marked car at Flatbush
Avenue at 1:10 am when the
suspect allegedly hurled the block
through the driver side window,
missing the offi cer but breaking the
window.
Cops collared the man on the
spot and charged him with felony
assault of a police offi cer, according
to police reports.
Fobbed!
Police cuffed a woman for allegedly
throwing a key fob at a cop on
Navy Street on Aug. 22.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly lobbed the fob at
the cop’s forehead near Sands Street
at 2:45 pm.
Offi cers arrested the suspect on
the scene for felony assault of a police
offi cer, according to police reports.
Busted teens
Cops arrested two teens for allegedly
trying to break into a Clinton
Street cafe on Aug. 23.
A witness told police that the two
14-year-old boys allegedly smashed
the front glass door of the restaurant
at Atlantic Avenue at 1:20 am
before fl eeing the scene.
After their alleged crime, the
teens allegedly tried to hide near
the Manhattan Bridge at Sands
Street, where police picked them
up and arrested them on felony burglary
charges, according to police
reports.
COURIER L 8 IFE, AUG. 28-SEPT. 3, 2020
Weekend of gun violence
rattles Coney Island
Detectives from the 60th Precinct investigate their third shooting in three days
outside of 2946 W. 23rd St. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Shots fried!
A lunatic fi red a gun inside a
Flatbush Avenue Ext. McDonald’s
on Aug. 20.
An employee told police that two
men were arguing inside the eatery
at Fulton Street at 10 pm, and when
she tried to break up the fi ght, one
of them pulled out a gun and fi red a
shot at the wall.
Gang o’ goons
Four villains robbed a guy at a
Navy Street park on Aug. 18.
The victim told cops that the
scumbags pushed him and grabbed
his backpack at Flushing Avenue at
3 pm, before fl eeing on Park Avenue
toward Downtown Brooklyn.
Beaten and bagged!
Cops arrested a man they say attacked
another guy with a stick and
bag on Vanderbilt Avenue on Aug.
23.
The victim told cops that, between
Myrtle and Park avenues
at 11:20 am, the suspect allegedly
smacked him with a cane and a bag
full of broken glass bottles.
Cops cuffed the suspect on felony
assault charges 20 minutes later on
the scene, according to police reports.
Prime crime
Police arrested a man for allegedly
attempting to rob the Wegmans
grocery store on Flushing Avenue
twice on Aug. 16 and 17.
An employee told police that the
suspect allegedly tried to walk out
of the store at Navy Street at 2:45 pm
on Aug. 16 and 4:20 pm on the following
day with packs of steak without
paying.
Police picked up the man at N.
Elliott Place near Park Avenue on
Aug. 19 at around 9 pm and charged
him with felony burglary, according
to police reports.
— Kevin Duggan
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Ash ambush
A ruffi an smacked a woman in
the head with an ashtray at a Shore
Parkway hotel on Aug. 23.
The victim told police that the
brute hit her in the forehead inside
the hotel by 24th Avenue at 4:45 am.
Responding offi cers said the victim
was uncooperative and refused
to give them any additional information
about the defendant, according
to police reports.
Sock heist
A woman scratched a checkout
cashier after stealing a pair of
socks from a 18th Avenue store on
Aug. 18.
The employee told police that the
robber snagged the socks from the
discount store between 74th Street
and Bay Ridge Parkway at 4 pm,
and when the victim confronted the
thief, she scratched her on the arm.
— Rose Adams
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Key-lamity
Two bruisers snuck up on a man
in a Neptune Avenue parking garage
and tried to steal his keys and
wallet on Aug. 18.
The victim told police that one of
the ruffi ans reached in through the
window of his vehicle parked at the
garage parked between W. 17th and
W.19th streets and nabbed his keys
at around 8:15 am before the pair
fl ed on foot.
— Jessica Parks
BY LLOYD MITCHELL
A trio of shootings at Coney Island
housing projects left two people
dead and four others injured
last weekend, which came amid a
particularly violent weekend across
New York City — where 20 people
were shot on Aug. 22 alone, according
to police.
First, at around 10:45 pm on Aug.
21, a bicyclist shot an Uber driver
was shot while he was dropping a
passenger off near West 23rd Street
and Mermaid Avenue — just feet
from the 60th Precinct. The driver
is expected to survive.
On the afternoon of Aug. 22, cops
from Police Service Area 1 found
20-year-old Fabian Abney dead
with multiple gunshot wounds to
the torso on the seventh fl oor of
the Surfside Houses on West 31st
Street.
At around 2 am on Aug. 23, offi
cers responded to a report of a
shooting outside the Carey Gardens
Houses on West 23rd Street, where
they found four men with gunshot
wounds — including 27-year-old
Kadeem Street, who paramedics
declared dead at the scene. Authorities
also took the three others
to nearby hospitals with non-life
threatening injuries.
No arrests have been made in
any of those incidents, and the
investigations remain ongoing,
cops said.