84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Rock knock
A pair of bandits threw a rock
at a Myrtle Avenue shopkeeper on
Aug. 15.
The victim told police that a man
and a woman stole soap, cookies,
and donuts, and waltzed out of the
Flatbush Avenue Ext. store at 11:30
am without paying.
When the female employee
chased after the crooks, they threw
a rock at her face and fl ed the scene
before police arived.
Double shooting
Villains shot two men at Sands
Street on the night of Aug. 11.
The fi rst victim told police that
the unkown gunmen shot him in
the ear near Navy Street just after
10:30 pm.
The second victim told police
that the mystery marksmen — who
police believe to be the same villians
— hit him with a bullet in the
buttocks at around 2:30 am the following
morning.
Paramedics brought both victims
to Methodist Hospital for treatment,
according to police reports.
Bat directions
Some goon hit a man with a stick
on Fulton Street on Aug. 15.
The victim told police that the
lout asked him for directions at Red
Hook Lane at 12:50 pm, before walloping
his arm with the bat.
Lobbed in the lobby
A bruiser attacked a receptionist
at a Duffi eld Street hotel on Aug. 16.
The victim told police that she
and her attacker started arguing
between Willoughby and Fulton
streets at 2:30 am, before the ruffi an
became violent and punched multiple
times, before hitting her with a
blunt object.
Cash grab
Looters raided a Livingston
Street diner on Aug. 10.
The victim told police that the
invader used a brick to bust the
glass door of the eatery on Nevins
Street just before midnight, before
swiping $3,750 while a second accomplice
was on the lookout on the
street nearby.
Slice n’ dice
Some marauder nabbed a cash
register in the dead of night from
an Atlantic Avenue pizzeria on Aug.
13.
The victim told police that the
purloiner broke the glass front door
of the shop between Smith and Hoyt
streets at 1:10 am and took the register,
which had over $400 in cash
inside.
COURIER L 8 IFE, AUGUST 21-27, 2020
Cops release photo of suspected
Crown Heights shooters
Cops are looking for these two men in relation to an Aug. 9 shooting that left a
bystander dead. NYPD
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Pepper spray pirate
A shoplifter stole drinks and
candy from a chain store on Flatbush
Avenue Ext. on Aug. 10.
The store manager told police
that the bandit grabbed the merchandise
inside the store near Fulton
Street at 6 pm, before threatening
an employee with a pepper spray
and bolting.
Bike bandits
A pair or louts ambushed a deliveryman
and took his e-bike on Cambridge
Place on Aug. 11.
The victim told police that the
two punks pushed him off his twowheeler
between Gates and Greene
avenues at 9:55 pm before riding off.
What a jerk!
Some scumbag bashed his girlfriend’s
head into a storefront window
on Fulton Street on Aug. 11.
The victim told police that her
beau pushed her into the supermarket
window between St. James and
Cambridge places at 7 am, causing
her to smash her forehead and arm
against the glass.
A friend brought the victim to
hospital, where doctors gave her
stitches on her forehead and left
hand, according to police reports.
Bouncer bust
Police arrested a man they say attacked
a security guard at a Dekalb
Avenue hospital on Aug. 12.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly hit him in the
head with his cellphone at Ashland
Place at 11:45 am.
Cops arrested the man on the
spot and charged him with felony
assault, according to police reports.
Glassed!
A gang of goons smashed a glass
bottle into a woman’s head on Navy
Street on Aug. 15.
The victim told police that the
four weasels snuck up from behind
near Flushing Avenue at 8:10 pm
and hit her twice with the bottle.
— Kevin Duggan
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Restaurant raid
Thieves robbed a Surf Avenue
restaurant on Aug. 10.
Employees told police that the
bandits broke in through the back
door of the shop between W. 10th
and W.12th streets at around 9 am,
before nabbing speakers and cash.
High Rise
Pilferers looted a Surf Avenue
business on Aug. 13.
An employee told police that the
robbers go in through a fi fth-fl oor
window of the offi ce at the intersection
of Stillwell Avenue at around
3:30 am, before grabbing more than
$3,800 worth of computer equipment.
Morning heist
A home invader stole more than
$200 cash from an 86th Street residence
on Aug.11.
The victim told police that the
prowler broke in through a back
window of the apartment near Avenue
X at around 8 am and ransacked
the apartment.
Shocking discovery
Police found a dead body inside a
Surf Avenue apartment on Aug. 15.
Offi cers responded to a 911 call of
an assault in progress at the building
near Marsha Rapaport Way,
where they found the 74-year-old
male dead with head trauma.
— Jessica Parks
BY BEN VERDE
The NYPD has released a photo
of two suspects wanted for questioning
in connection to the killing
of 53-year-old Cristopher Ross,
who was shot in the head by a stray
bullet at Lincoln Terrace Park in
Crown Heights on Aug. 9.
A $10,000 reward is being offered
by cops for information related to
the broad daylight shooting, which
claimed the life the Crown Heights
resident — who friends say was an
innocent bystander, simply playing
handball inside the park.
Ross’ death marked the second
shooting in Lincoln Terrace Park
this summer, after cops found a
27-year-old man dead on the park’s
steps with gunshot wounds to the
head on July 7.
The 77th precinct, where the
shooting occurred, has seen a
spike in shootings amid a violent
summer for New York City. Shootings
are up 125 percent in the precinct,
according to city data, with
36 incidents to-date in 2020 compared
to 16 at the same time in
2019.
Anyone with information in regard
to this incident is asked to call
the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline
at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish,
1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The
public can also submit their tips
by logging onto the CrimeStoppers
website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.
com, on Twitter @NYPDTips
or by texting their tips to 274637
(CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All
calls are strictly confi dential.
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