Brooklyn
Investigators released a sketch of a would-be rapist wanted for accosting a woman in Bushwick. The 26-year-old victim was walking near Evergreen Avenue and Grove Street on Sept. 6 at about 1 a.m. when the attacker grabbed her from behind and forced her to the ground, police said. He tried to sexually assault the woman, but fled when the victim put up a fight, cops said.
Two thieves snatched a woman’s cellphone at a Crown Heights subway station, authorities said. The 57-year-old victim was talking on her Samsung Galaxy Note inside the Utica Avenue 3/4 train station on Sept. 1 at about 8:55 p.m. when one of the crooks ripped the phone from her hand, cops said. He tossed it to his accomplice and the duo fled the station, police said. The shirtless phone-snatcher, believed to be between 20 and 25 years old, is about 5-foot-7 and 180 pounds. His accomplice appears to be in his late teens or early 20s, approximately 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds.
A man is wanted for allegedly pilfering two packages from a Williamsburg building lobby. The thief let himself into the building on Leonard Street near Montrose Avenue on Aug. 3 at about 10:50 p.m., grabbed a yellow envelope and headed for the door, surveillance video shows. On his way out, he spotted another parcel in the building’s mailroom and tucked it under his arm before exiting, cops said. The bald suspect had a black backpack slung over his left shoulder.
A 38-year-old man stabbed several times inside a Sunset Park restaurant Monday night has died, police said. Hui Chen succumbed to his wounds at Lutheran Medical Center on Tuesday, one day after the attack. Chen was dining at about 9 p.m. at a Chinese restaurant near the intersection of 51st Street and Seventh Avenue when he got into an argument with another man, cops said. The attacker whipped out a knife and plunged it repeatedly into Chen’s torso, police said. Investigators are poring over surveillance video and interviewing witnesses as they work to identify a suspect.
The Bronx
A 20-year-old man shot in the head Monday night outside his South Bronx building has died, cops said. Steven Navarro, who died Tuesday at Lincoln Hospital, was gunned down outside the Bronxchester Houses on East 156th Street near St. Ann’s Avenue, police said. Navarro was found about 10:30 p.m. Investigators have not yet identified any suspects, but it’s believed the slaying may be gang-related, police sources said. Navarro had multiple priors for charges including assault and pot possession, police said.
Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of a suspect in a deadly Wakefield shooting last March. Sarita Richardson, 35, faces charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder after allegedly fatally gunning down Jason Allwood, 33, and wounding Allwood’s 40-year-old friend on Murdock Avenue near East 242nd Street on March 13 at about 1:40 a.m.
Manhattan
A bandit got away with more than $4,000 in an Upper West Side bank robbery, police said. The thief passed a demand note to a teller at the Capital One branch on West 87th Street and Broadway Monday just after 9:45 a.m., cops said. The worker handed over $4,019 in cash and the robber fled, authorities said.The suspect is believed to be about 30 years old, 5-foot-10 and 180 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black baseball cap, plastic-frame sunglasses, and a gray Nike shirt.