Manhattan
Police released surveillance video of a suspect (seen here) wanted for shooting a rival on a Harlem street. The two men got into a fight on Saint Nicholas Avenue near West 114th Street before the gunman pulled out a weapon and blasted several shots at his fleeing victim Saturday at about 12:15 p.m., cops said. One of the rounds struck the 39-year-old victim in the leg. He was treated at an area hospital and released. The video shows the suspect retreating into a nearby building.
Staten Island
A man was stabbed in the hallway of a Rosebank apartment building early Monday, authorities said. The victim was approached by a man and knifed in the torso at about 5:45 a.m. in a building on Bay Street near Hylan Boulevard, police said. He was taken to Richmond University Medical Center in serious but stable condition.
Police are looking for a woman who swiped a shopper’s purse inside a Stapleton CVS. The suspect was caught on surveillance video entering the 1125 Bay St. store about 10:40 a.m. on Feb. 3, according to police. Once inside, the bespectacled suspect took a purse belonging to a 25-year-old woman which had been left on a shelf. The suspect is described as in her late teens or early 20s and was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, hoop earrings and blue jeans.
An off-duty Sanitation Department worker was arrested for allegedly driving drunk through Eltingville over the weekend. Robert Smith, 32, was pulled over after police spotted him driving erratically near the corner of Barlow Avenue and Drumgoole Road around 10:30 p.m. Sunday, cops said. The officers noticed Smith smelled of booze, had bloodshot eyes and was slurring his speech as they were trying to talk to him. Smith was cuffed and charged with driving while intoxicated, cops said.
The Bronx
A man was fatally shot early Monday when a fight broke out at a card game in Van Nest, authorities said. Police responding to the incident at an apartment on Bronx Park East near Maran Place found a 29-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the left leg and torso at about 2:20 a.m. The man had been playing cards with several other people when an argument started, causing one to pull out a gun and shoot him. The victim was taken to Jacobi Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
A 71-year-old man was knocked out cold by an attacker inside a Foxhurst supermarket, police said. A verbal dispute broke out between the victim and a younger man Saturday at about 12:30 p.m. at Fine Fare Supermarket on East 163rd Street and Hoe Avenue, police said. The suspect punched the victim in the face and then fled, according to police. The victim was left unconscious from the blow and taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition. The suspect is believed to be in his 30s. He was last seen wearing a blue Yankee jacket and a blue Yankee cap.
Brooklyn
Cops arrested a third teen in the beat-down of a postal worker in Fort Greene, police sources said. Zaukai Findlay, 14, was charged with assault for allegedly aiding in the attack on the 50-year-old letter carrier on Fulton Street as he was delivering mail last Wednesday afternoon. The man was not seriously injured but received stitches at Brooklyn Hospital. Cops previously had arrested Joshua Ruiz, 14, and Keeshawn Ruan, 16.
A pair of thieves robbed two grocery stores a block apart in Highbridge, authorities said. The gun-toting suspects first walked into Sapphire Deli and Grocery on Ogden Avenue around 9:15 a.m. Sunday and demanded cash from the man behind the counter before running out with $400. Minutes later, they ran into another bodega up the block, where they again robbed the clerk at gunpoint, this time making off with an undetermined amount of money, cops said. No one was injured in either theft. The first suspect was wearing a black long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans, black sneakers and a gray baseball cap. His partner was wearing a red sweater under a black jacket, black sweatpants, white sneakers, gray baseball cap and a black mask over his face. He was gunman, cops said.