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COURIER L 34 IFE, OCTOBER 25-31, 2019
WANTED: Police are looking for these men in connection with a stabbing
in Park Slope. NYPD
BY BEN VERDE
Cops are hunting for a group
of knife-wielding brutes who
stabbed a 19-year-old multiple
times in a Park Slope
laundromat on Sept. 27.
The suspects picked a fi ght
with the employees of the
laundromat near Fourth
Avenue and 14th Street at
around 7:40 pm, when one
of the fi ends repeatedly
plunged a knife into the
teen’s torso, according to
police.
First responders arrived on
the scene and rushed the victim
to Methodist Hospital for
treatment, authorities said.
Another 40-year-old victim
sustained bumps and
bruises to his head and
body, but refused medical
treatment, cops said.
No arrests have been made,
and the investigation remains
ongoing, according
to authorities.
BY ROSE ADAMS
Talk about a close shave!
Cops are searching for the
gunman who robbed a man
mid-trim at a Williamsburg
barbershop on Oct. 14.
The victim was in the barber
seat on Maujer Street by Manhattan
Avenue at around 4:30
pm, when the robber entered
the shop, approached the victim,
and stuck a gun to his
neck, before snarling “Give
me the watch,” according to
an employee.
The heist was so strange and
sudden, some barbers assumed
the robber was a regular
customer playing a practical
joke, the employee said.
“They thought at fi rst that
it was a guy trying to play
around with him,” said Flex
Rodriguez, a Mill Basin resident.
“He had a hoodie on, and
they know someone that looks
just like that.”
But the presumed prank was
no laughing matter. Rodriguez
said that the victim, who
wasn’t wearing a watch, tried
unsuccessfully to remove his
ritzy Cartier bracelets, but the
bands can only be removed
with a screwdriver, so he resorted
to handing the robber
his cell phone, credit card, and
$350, police said.
Following the robbery, the
victim told employees that he
didn’t know the bandit, but
that he had seen him around
his neighborhood, according
to Rodriguez, who suspects
that the victim was targeted
because of his fl ashy outfi ts
and expensive car, which was
double-parked outside the
shop.
“It’s got to be an inside job,”
Rodriguez said, before noting
that the victim’s uncle is a jeweler.
“Supposedly the watch is
worth $10,000.”
Anyone who provides police
with information leading
to an arrest can expect up to
a $2,500 reward through the
NYPD’s Crime Stoppers program.
The public can phone
their tips to (800) 577-8477, log
into the Crime Stoppers website
at www.nypdcrimestoppers.
com, tweet @NYPDTips,
or text tips to 274637 (CRIMES)
then enter TIP577.
BARBERSHOP BANDIT: A man
robbed a barbershop customer at
gun point on Oct. 14 while the victim
was getting a trim. NYPD
Cops on the hunt for
Park Slope stabbers
Barbershop bandit robs Williamsburg man at gunpoint
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