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
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-year-old 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.
COURIER L 8 IFE, OCTOBER 1-7, 2021
Man charged with killing of
four-year-old boy
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, where they were
joined by the second suspect. The
victim was able to notify a teller at
the second bank that he was being
robbed, and the teller called police,
who arrived on the scene after the
two thieves had fl ed.
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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.
Third party
A possibly-confused scoundrel
smacked a man and his vehicle with
a baton on Lafayette Avenue on
Sept. 23.
The victim told police that the
man had just been in a car crash
near St. Felix Street and was out
of the car arguing with the other
driver when the rapscallion, who
had not been involved in the accident,
walked up and used a baton to
hit the victim in the face and damage
his car.
Damaged goods
A weasel broke into a Monument
Walk apartment sometime between
Sept. 20 and Sept. 21.
The victim told police that the
sneak broke in through a bedroom
window while she was out and rummaged
through her belongings, but
when she returned to the apartment
near Navy Street, she could not fi gure
out what, if anything, had been
stolen.
Tool taken
A raider broke into a truck
parked on Washington Avenue and
stole a DeWalt drill on Sept. 21.
The victim told police that he
parked his company near Lafayette
Avenue, but when he got back to the
truck, the front drivers-side door
had been broken into and the drill
had been stolen.
Empty ATM
A slick fi lcher broke into a
Lafayette Avenue ATM and made
off with nearly $3,000 in cash on
Sept. 19.
An employee of the ATM company
got a notifi cation that there
was a problem with the ATM, located
in front of a laundromat near
S. Portland Street at around 3 pm,
and later they found that the ATM
had been broken into and that all
the cash, as well as the part of the
machine that holds the cash, had
been taken.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
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 before authorities
showed up.
—Jessica Parks
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.