Brooklyn
Police last night shot a man who allegedly pointed a gun at them in the lobby of a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building.
Plainclothes officers saw the man shoot someone near the intersection of DeKalb and Franklin avenues around 9 p.m., cops said.
They ordered him to drop the gun, but he ran into the building. He turned toward them with the gun in his hand, and the officers fired, hitting him once in the thigh, authorities said.
The gunman was in stable condition at Woodhull Hospital. A man believed to be the victim of the earlier shooting went to Woodhull on his own.
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A crazed customer destroyed flowerpots and threatened a bank employee who refused to let him close out his mom’s account at a Brooklyn Heights branch, cops said yesterday.
Alfred Kulah, 31, allegedly menaced the female employee in the Citibank at Montague and Clinton streets at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday.
He flew into a rage, shouted “I’m going to come back here with a gun,” picked up several flowerpots and threw them down, sources said.
Kulah was charged with criminal mischief and menacing.
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A Sunset Park resident assaulted a cop after terrorizing a neighbor who rebuffed his request for a cigarette, authorities said yesterday.
Alfred Davis, 34, allegedly asked the victim for a smoke outside their building on Seventh Avenue near 41st Street at 10:25 p.m. Tuesday.
The victim, puffing on a cig, said he didn’t have an extra and Davis started yelling at him.
The victim dashed back to his apartment as Davis allegedly pursued him, banged on his door and screamed.
Police arrived and Davis allegedly shoved an officer before being restrained, cops said.
Manhattan
A stalker was arrested for terrorizing a youth counselor at a Lower East Side church, authorities said yesterday.
Beginning in 2005, José Garcia, 27, regularly received counseling from the female counselor at the church on Attorney Street near East Houston Street, sources said.
In June 2006, the relationship hit a sour note when Garcia allegedly mailed a threatening letter to the woman. Then, recently, Garcia allegedly warned her he would do “something very bad.”
And last Friday, a cop caught Garcia near the victim’s car with a knife in his pocket, police said.
Garcia was charged with stalking and weapon possession.
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A burglar swiped $31,250 in jewelry from an Upper East Side apartment as the 66-year-old tenant walked her dog, sources said yesterday.
The thief walked into the apartment through an unlocked door in the building on East 85th Street near Third Avenue at 10:50 a.m. Monday, cops said.
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A pedestrian was injured by a slab of wood that fell from a building in the Financial District yesterday, police said.
The 33-year-old woman was walking to work on Broad Street near Exchange Place at 8:15 a.m. yesterday when the slab struck her on the head.
She was listed in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital.
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Two muggers claiming to have guns snatched more than $1,100 in cash and jewelry from a woman in Greenwich Village, police sources said yesterday.
The unidentified men, their hands in their jackets, confronted the 18-year-old victim as she walked along West 14th Street near Sixth Avenue at 8:10 p.m. Sunday.
One shouted, “Give me your stuff or your life is over,” and the victim turned over her earrings, bracelet, necklace, ring and cash.
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A dopey thief apparently left behind his passport in his victim’s Greenwich Village apartment, police sources said yesterday.
The prowler pushed aside a gate and slipped inside the apartment through a window on Thompson Street near West Houston Street at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, cops said.
He stuffed underwear, jewelry and a computer into two bags, but he dropped his haul and fled as the landlord came by, the sources said. His passport was found in the apartment, said detectives, who are hunting for him.
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A man was busted for beating his girlfriend on the Upper East Side, authorities said yesterday.
Shawn Franklyn, 30, allegedly shoved the woman against a wall on East 60th Street near Fifth Avenue at 5 p.m. Sunday.
Franklyn then repeatedly punched the woman in the mouth, choked her and threatened to kill her, the complaint states.
The victim managed to call 911, and Franklyn was busted on assault charges, the DA’s office said.
Staten Island
A young man was arrested for shooting a 15-year-old boy at a Mariners Harbor movie theater, authorities said yesterday.
On Feb. 20, Isaiah Gregory, 18, who has had previous run-ins with the teen, shot him in the leg outside the AMC theater on Forest Avenue, cops said.
Gregory was arrested Tuesday on assault charges.