Brooklyn
A suspect shouted anti-Semitic slurs at a driver and hurled a rock through the person’s car window in Midwood, authorities said Wednesday. He began spewing insults at the driver of a Chrysler minivan traveling along Nostrand Avenue at about 5 p.m. Tuesday, and then chucked the rock through the rear driver-side window, police investigators said. The suspect was described as approximately 14 years old, 5-foot-6 and 130 pounds.
A man was mugged and stabbed in East Flatbush, sources said Wednesday. On Tuesday just before 5 p.m., the 30-year-old victim was approached by a group of men on Linden Boulevard near East 84th Street, and one told him to “run your pockets.” Before the man could empty them, one thief reached into the guy’s pockets and the two brawled, sources said. During the struggle, the victim was stabbed in the left side of the torso. The wound was not considered life-threatening.
Two con artists duped an elderly woman out of $6,000 in Dyker Heights, authorities said. The thieves approached the 88-year-old victim at 74th Street and 13th Avenue at about 12:30 p.m. on June 21 and told her they had found $100,000 on the street. They told the trusting victim that they needed help in returning the money to a bank and offered to drive her to a nearby branch to deposit the money into an account. At the bank, one of the thieves walked in alone and returned a short time later to tell the victim that a bank manager said they could keep the money if they first paid taxes on it. They then convinced the victim to withdraw $6,000 to cover the “taxes” and told her to speak to the manager to finalize the transaction. But when she asked a bank employee to speak to that worker, she was told no such person was there. Back outside, the victim found the pair gone. Two suspects are believed to be in their 40s. One has gray hair and glasses and was wearing a pink shirt. The other wears glasses and was wearing a dark-colored dress.
Cops are questioning the fiancé of a woman found dead in her Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment, police sources said Wednesday. Cops found the body of Debra Tomic, 51, lying in a blood-soaked bed in her Bedford Avenue home with bruises all over her body at about 10 p.m. Tuesday. They also found fiancé Donald Reddish, 57, in the apartment, sporting a black eye. Reddish told them that he found Tomic’s body and dialed 911.
Police on Wednesday released a photo of a suspect in the fatal shooting of a man at a Brownsville housing complex. John Morrison, 52, was walking at the Glenmore Houses on Christopher Avenue when he was shot several times in the chest and abdomen at about 11 p.m. last Wednesday. He was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital, police said. The suspect was wearing a black shirt, black pants and a gold chain around his neck.
Queens
Police are looking for two thieves who have been mugging people in Ridgewood, authorities said Wednesday. At 12:30 a.m. on May 15, they approached a 36-year-old man at Forest Avenue and Norman Street, and asked for the time. When the victim looked at his watch, one thug grabbed him while the other snatched a watch and a wedding ring. The thieves punched a 29-year-old man in the face at about 10:30 p.m. on June 12, and got his phone.
The Bronx
A suspect stole a woman’s cellphone as she slept on a subway train in Woodlawn, authorities said Wednesday. He took the phone from the 27-year-old woman’s hand as she was snoozing on a 4 train in the vicinity of the Woodlawn station at 3 a.m. on May 29. He was wearing a black T-shirt bearing white roman numerals and a picture of the Eiffel Tower.