BROOKLYN
* A security guard stabbed a man who hit him in the head outside a Prospect Heights supermarket, authorities said yesterday.
Jason Jeffrey, 24, who was guarding a Pathmark store on Atlantic Avenue near Fort Greene Place, got into an argument with Davey James, 33, around 10:30 p.m. on Friday. James allegedly smashed Jeffrey in the head with a glass object. Jeffrey then pulled a knife and stabbed James in the thigh, police sources said.
Both men were arrested on assault charges and taken to local hospitals. Their conditions were not known.
* A man was shot by a gunman who accosted him near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, authorities said yesterday. Dwayne Waters, 30, was hit in the ankle and thigh on York Street near Gold Street around 10:30 p.m. on Friday, when the unidentified assailant pulled a gun and opened fire.
Waters was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. The shooter, whose motive was not known, fled.
* Five black men spewed anti-white insults at a 34-year-old man and smashed him with a chair on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street, police said yesterday.
The apparent bias incident took place at the corner of Macon Street and Stuyvesant Avenue at around 7 p.m. Saturday. The group fled. The victim suffered minor injuries and refused medical attention. (lcf)
QUEENS
* A man who was nabbed in North Carolina has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 26-year- old man on a South Jamaica street early this month, police said yesterday.
Anthony Houston, 26, of Queens was busted Thursday in North Carolina after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Houston allegedly shot Shahada Bey three times on Guy Brewer Boulevard and 109th Avenue around 10 p.m. on Sept. 1.
Bey was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where he died. Police did not know the motive for the attack.
MANHATTAN
* A pink powder discovered at the ABC building on the Upper West Side prompted a scare that forced police to cordon off the area for several hours yesterday.
An employee found the substance in a bin in the mailroom of the building on West 66th Street near Columbus Avenue around 11:30 a.m. Police and firefighters were called to the scene and conducted preliminary tests on the substance, which were inconclusive.
The city Department of Health will perform further tests. No injuries were reported.
* An unidentified man illegally dumped a barrel leaking ammonia on a Midtown street yesterday before fleeing, police said.
A witness called 911 after spotting the 6 foot, 230 pound man dumping the blue barrel from a portable hand truck on West 36th Street at Ninth Avenue around 10 a.m. Police cordoned off the area until 3:20 p.m., when Department of Environmental Protection officials took the barrel away. (s, lcf)
* Two men robbed an East Harlem store at gunpoint after locking the owner into a bathroom, police said yesterday.
The thieves walked into St. Louis Plus 99 Cents And Up on First Avenue near East 110th Street at around 3 p.m. Sunday, and one of them drew a silver handgun. The gunman forced the owner into the bathroom and locked him inside, while the accomplice stole $80 from the cash register.
The robbers fled on bicycles.
Neighbors heard the victim banging on the walls of the bathroom and called 911. Police responded, and freed the man. (lcf)
* A 49-year-old man was stabbed in the chest during an argument on a Harlem street, police said yesterday. The victim got into a brawl with a man in his 20s, who stabbed the older man on West 146th Street near Convent Avenue at around 9 a.m. Sunday.
The bleeding man flagged down cops in a patrol car. The officers called for an ambulance, which took the man to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. The assailant, whose motive was not known, fled. (lcf)
* A 7-month-old Washington Heights girl died yesterday of mysterious causes in a Washington Heights apartment building, cops said. The baby, whose name was not immediately released, was discovered around 10 a.m. in her apartment building on Wadsworth Avenue near West 185th Street.
She was taken to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, where she died. Police said the baby’s body bore no visible signs of trauma. The medical examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
STATEN ISLAND
* A suspect was arrested yesterday in the shooting of a 29-year-old man on a Grymes Hill street last month, police said.
Bryant Pearson of Staten Island allegedly shot his victim twice in the leg on Warren Street near Gordon Street at around 4:30 p.m. Aug. 17. The wounded man was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Pearson was charged with assault. Police said he has a history of arrests dating back to 1994 for assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
* A man was arrested after police spotted him with drugs on a Sunnyside street, authorities said yesterday.
Malcolm Miles, 31, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance on Saturday after a detective saw him with Vicodin and Hydrocodone. (lcf)