Manhattan–A woman was struck by a stray bullet in East Harlem yesterday — and the punk who shot her laughed about it, she said.
The unidentified woman, in her 50s, heard shots on Third Avenue near East 105th Street at 2 p.m. and realized she’d been struck in the right foot.
“She stepped into the store and said, ‘I want to call my niece, I got shot,’ ” said Hiamy Ayub, owner of nearby Carla’s Fashion.
“She said he shot her and he started laughing.”
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A young man was fatally stabbed yesterday after an argument in Washington Heights.
Ariel Almanzar, 23, was knifed in the chest at 4:35 a.m. on West 176th Street at Audubon Avenue. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he died. Cops were quizzing two men.
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The man killed in a dispute outside the China Club in Times Square over the weekend was identified yesterday.
Kenyatta Cotterell, a 22-year-old with a long rap sheet, was stabbed to death outside the night spot at 4 a.m. Saturday.
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A 41-year-old man who had served multiple stints in prison for drug possession was fatally stabbed in East Harlem yesterday.
Eugene Blount was knifed in the neck at 6:25 a.m. on East 130th Street near Madison Avenue.
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A car struck two pedestrians as they were trying to cross the West Side Highway yesterday, officials said.
The 32-year-old man and 28-year-old woman were crossing near West 40th Street at 5:10 a.m. when a van headed north on the highway hit them.
The woman was in serious but stable condition at St. Vincent’s Hospital. The man was stable. The driver stayed at the scene.
Queens
A hulking thief with an apparently huge allergy problem was busted for swiping 81 packs of Zyrtec from a Corona drugstore, authorities said yesterday.
Pinkney Pearson, 58, who is 6-6 and 300 pounds, allegedly stuffed more than $1,200 worth of the medication into his jacket and boots on Sept. 11 before fleeing the Rite Aid on 99th Street near 57th Avenue.
Investigators caught up to Pearson on Jan. 15.
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A man threatened to shoot a woman in front of her home in South Jamaica, cops said yesterday.
Neil Stephens, 29, pulled out a gun at 2:40 p.m. Tuesday on Rockaway Boulevard near 144th Street and yelled, “I’m gonna shoot your house up, I’m gonna shoot this whole motherf – – – – – up!” according to court papers.
He was arrested and charged with menacing and harassment, a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown said.
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Two punks were arrested for cutting off a side mirror from a BMW parked in Corona, officials said yesterday.
A cop on Tuesday spotted Nelson Arce holding the mirror, and his cohort, Kerry Martinez, clutching a pair of bolt cutters next to the 2006 luxury SUV on 104th Street at 44th Avenue, police said.
The pair, both 23, were charged with possession of burglar’s tools, criminal mischief, auto stripping and petit larceny.
Staten Island
A man whose license had been suspended five times led cops on a wild chase after he fled a Heartland Village restaurant with the purses of his girlfriend and her pal, officials said yesterday.
Richard Turkovic, 25, was in the T.G.I Friday’s near the Staten Island Mall at around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday when he got into an argument with his girlfriend and stole the purses, cops said.
About an hour later, a cop spotted Turkovic’s car and tried to pull him over. But he sped through red lights and swerved between lanes before ditching the car, authorities said. Investigators tracked him down at a friend’s house and arrested him.
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A boozed-up driver was arrested when a toll collector on the Verrazano Bridge noticed her swerving her 2008 Porsche between lanes, cops said yesterday.
Jewel Crivilli, 32, was stopped at around 2:15 a.m. Friday and blew a .10 on the Breathalyzer exam, officials said.
Brooklyn
Cops are investigating the mysterious death of a man in Greenpoint.
Patrick LaGreca, 47, was found on the kitchen floor of his apartment on Manhattan Avenue near India Street at around 4 p.m. yesterday, cops said.
His body was discovered after his girlfriend grew concerned after not hearing from him for a while and asked a third person to check on him.
He had head trauma, but it wasn’t clear if it was from a fall or if he was beaten.