61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Lotto losers
Crooks snagged more than $3,000
in lotto tickets from an Avenue X
store on April 6.
The store owner told police the
thieves entered through the front
door of the store at the intersection
of W. Second Street at around 4 am,
before grabbing the tickets and fl eeing.
Thirsty thieves
Bandits broke into an Avenue U
store and stole $650 from the cash
register on April 7.
A store employee told police that
the villain smashed the glass on
the front door at the intersection of
Ocean Avenue around 7:40 pm and
snagged an energy drink before
fl eeing.
Knife knave
A pillager mugged a man and
threatened him with a knife on E.
26th Street on April 9.
The victim told police the brigand
approached him on the corner
of Avenue V around 1 pm and said
“it’s a bad day” before brandishing
the knife and then fl eeing in a white
Jeep.
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Cash withdrawal
A bandit mugged a woman after
she used a Brighton Beach Avenue
ATM on April 11.
The victim told police that the
crook pushed her near the intersection
of Beach Walk at around 2:55
pm, before stealing her wallet and
feeling.
Better go catch it!
Home invaders stole the refrigerator
from a W. 16th Street home on
April 7.
Police said the weasels broke the
front door’s lock of the residence between
Hart Place and Neptune Avenue
at around noon to enter the
home and steal the fridge.
Electrical heist
Prowlers broke into W. 19th
Street home and stole more than
$16,000 worth of property on April
8.
The victim told police that the
freebooters broke in through a back
window of the house between Mermaid
and Neptune avenue at around
8:30 am, before stealing the ill-gotten
goods, and fl eeing through the
front door.
— Jessica Parks
COURIER L 8 IFE, APRIL 17-23, 2020
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Domestic violence
Police arrested a man for allegedly
slashing and choking his exgirlfriend
inside a Vanderbilt Avenue
apartment on April 6.
The victim told police that her
former beau allegedly cut her hand
and chest at the residence between
Park and Flushing avenues at 9:50
pm, before choking her, which
caused her to lose consciousness for
fi ve minutes.
Cut it out!
Police arrested a man for allegedly
cutting a woman’s face with a
bottle of cologne at their Cumberland
Walk apartment on April 11.
The victim told police that the
suspect accused her of breaking his
bottle of cologne, leading both of
them to get into an argument at Carlton
Avenue around 2:40 pm, before
the man allegedly grabbed the bottle
and hit her in the face with it.
Deep cuts
Police arrested a woman for allegedly
cutting another woman’s
fi nger at a Carlton Avenue apartment
on April 11.
The victim told police that the
suspect took a blade and cut her fi nger
at Park Avenue at 2:30 pm.
Police arrested the suspect on
the scene and charged her with felony
assault.
Emergency loot
Burglars looted an emergency
backpack, drinks, and supplies
from a Greene Avenue apartment
on April 6.
The victim told police that the
two menaces broke his locker and
stole a bag, tools, a large pack of toilet
paper, seltzer, and sodas before
hightailing toward Classon Avenue
at around 3:40 am.
Slice and dice
A bandit broke into a Classon Avenue
pizzeria on April 4.
Police found that the lout
smashed the window of the eatery
at Greene Avenue around 3 am with
a rock, but they didn’t see if the purloiner
stole any goods.
Crosstown joyrider
A carjacker stole a sports car on
Willoughby Avenue and drove it
across three boroughs before cops
found it again on April 6.
The victim told police that he
parked his Dodge Charger at Clinton
Avenue around 6:30 pm and when he
returned to fi nd it stolen — and licence
plate readers later caught the
car crossing the Brooklyn Bridge,
driving up Manhattan, before cops
found it parked in the Bronx.
— Kevin Duggan
Three dead in weekend of
fatal shootings
The NYPD recorded three fatal shootings in one deadly weekend.
Photo by Todd Maisel
BY TODD MAISEL
The city’s shelter in place order
to curb the spread of novel coronavirus
didn’t prevent a spate of violence
across Brooklyn and Manhattan
this weekend that left three
people dead.
The fi rst homicide occurred just
after 8 pm on April 11 in front of
232 Buffalo Ave. in Crown Heights,
near a homeless shelter run by the
Department of Homeless Services.
When cops from the 77th Precinct
arrived, they found 31-year-old
Paul Hoilett, a resident of Atlantic
Avenue in Brownsville, shot once in
the head. Paramedics rushed him
to Kings County Hospital, where he
was pronounced dead upon arrival.
Cops described the perpetrator
as a man with a medium complexion,
short hair, and a thin build,
standing 5-foot-8 inches tall and
weighing 170 pounds. He was last
seen wearing a red hooded sweatshirt,
a white t-shirt, blue jeans
and white sneakers, and fl eeing
the scene in a white Jeep Renegade
SUV.
Last summer, on Aug. 8, 2019,
four people were shot in front of the
same location. A memorial garden
was set up nearby for one of those
who died in that attack.
The second weekend shooting
occurred at 8:20 pm on April 11 at
the corner of East 112th Street and
First Avenue in East Harlem. Offi
cers from the 23rd Precinct responded
and found three men shot,
two of them with multiple gunshot
wounds to various parts of the body,
police offi cials said.
Two of the injured men, ages 41
and 40, died of their injuries at Metropolitan
Hospital and Harlem Hospital,
respectively. A third wounded
man, age 38, is in critical condition
at Metropolitan Hospital.
The deceased victims’ identities
were not yet disclosed by police.
No arrests have been made at
this time and the investigation is
ongoing by the 23rd Precinct Detective
Squad.
Another person was reported
shot at approximately 11 pm April
11 at 608 East 86th St. near Farragut
Road in Canarsie.
The victim, a 30-year-old man,
was shot once in the abdomen and
rushed to Kings County Hospital
in serious condition, according to
authorities. No arrests have been
made, and the 69th Precinct Detective
Squad is investigating the case.
The weekend’s violence came
as NYPD was down 18.6 percent of
their members — an improvement,
however, for the department, which
previously saw almost 20 percent of
its offi cers out sick. New York City
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea
said Friday that more than 500 cops
had returned to duty after reporting
sick.