Saturday, September 27, 2014

Daily Blotter



Manhattan


A 25-year-old man was gunned down near Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, police said.


The victim was outside the Taft Houses on Madison Avenue near West 115th Street Saturday at 7:50 a.m. when a gunman opened fire, cops said.


Emergency responders rushed the victim to St. Luke’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, cops said.


The identity of the deceased was withheld pending family notification, and police are scouring the area for video surveillance.




Queens


A man was shot after a Craigslist-sale meeting turned into a robbery in Beechhurst, cops said.


The 24-year-old victim posted an online ad to sell an iPhone on Thursday and a man claiming to be an interested customer ­responded, police said.


The suspect and a pal went to the victim’s home at 10:55 p.m. near Cryders Lane and 159th Street, cops said.


One of the men, armed with a gun, shot the victim in both arms, grabbed the phone and the two fled in a sedan, according to police.


The victim was rushed to New York Hospital Queens where he was in stable condition.




The Bronx


A grocery store was robbed at gunpoint in Soundview, cops said.


Two men, one armed with a gun, walked into the Kool Aid Grocery on East 174th Street and Rosedale Avenue Saturday at 1 a.m. and purchased a beverage, police said.


The duo then left but quickly returned — and this time one of the creeps brandished a small revolver, cops said.


The pair demanded cash, and made off with $ 150, cops said.




Brooklyn


A man was killed near his Brownsville home, cops said.


Police responded to a call of an assault in progress at Livonia Avenue and Grafton Street at 11:20 p.m. Friday, said police.


Officers arrived to find a bloodied Keith Westbrook, 22, unconscious and unresponsive on the street, cops said.


He was rushed to Brookdale Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.


No arrests have been made.


Westbrook had one prior arrest, according to law-enforcement author­ities.




A man was found dead with gunshot wounds in his Flatlands apartment building, police said.


Dorrian Ford, 39, was found at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the basement of his ­Avenue H building with gunshot wounds to the head, neck and back.




Staten Island


An allegedly inebriated motorist was arrested for sideswiping parked cars in Port Richmond, law-enforcement sources said.


Ronald Anderson, 49, was in a 2014 Jeep Wrangler when he hit the autos at Platinum and Richmond avenues at 10:55 p.m. on Sept. 24, according to a Criminal Court complaint.


Anderson careened off the road into a 2011 Honda Accord and a 2008 Jeep, whose owner was standing near the vehicle and witnessed the collision, cops said.


According to court documents, Anderson told cops, “I was coming home and fell asleep at the wheel.”





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