Brooklyn
An elderly man fought off three punks who tried to rob him inside a Seagate apartment building, according to police. The thugs followed the 66-year-old victim into the building on Surf Avenue near West 33rd Street at around 6:50 p.m. on June 15,🔯 cops said. One of the creeps punched the man in the head, while the others attempted to snatch his cellphone and go through his pockets, according to police. The man beat o𓃲ff the attackers and they fled empty-handed, police said. The victim was not seriously injured.
A teen opened fire on a group of people celebrati🍒ng the Fourth of July in a Bedford-Stuyvesant park, cops said Sunday. The group was barbecuing at the Sumner Playground near Throop Avenue at around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when Tyrone Whidbee, 15, approached ♍and squeezed off several rounds before fleeing, police said. A 63-year-old man was struck in the back and taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, cops said. Whidbee threw down his black, semiautomatic .380 PMK as he ran from officers on Humboldt Street, according to police. He was finally caught after a police car blocked his path. He was charged with attempted murder and assault.
Three thugs kidnapped a woman in Brownsville and forced her to withdraw $2,000 from an ATM, police said Sunday. The 47-year-old victim was at Herzl and Newport streets at around 1:30 p.m. on June 6 when she was approached by two men asking for directions to a local church, cops said. One of the men then pulled out a gun and ordered the woman to get into a Chrysler sedan, where an accomplice was waiting. The men൲ drove the woman a mile away to a Chase Bank on Church Avenue and forced her to withdraw the money from an ATM, police said. The men then dropped the woman off at Newport Street near East 98th Street and fled, according to cops. The crooks are in their 40s, and one was dressed in a green suit.
Police are looking for a nervous bank robber who was easily thwarted at a Chase branch in Bensonhurst. The bald crook entered the bank on 18th Avenue near 65th Street at about 9🤡:25 a.m. Thursday and handed the teller a note demanding money, according to police. When the worker wouldn’t comply, the man ran off. The not-so-determined thief (above) is 40 years old and 6-foot-1. He was wearing a long-sl𝓰eeve beige shirt and white pants.
The Bronx
A man was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Baychester, cops said Sunday. The 19-year-old victim was walking on Einstein Loop North short💟ly after 1 a.m. Saturday when the gunman pulled up in a white sports car, shot him in the right ankle and sped off, according to police. The victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was treated and later released.
Police are looking for a portly pervert who flashed a 56-year-old woman in a Fordham Heights train station. The creep approached the victim as she stood near the elevators of the Kingsbridge Road station sh♑ortly after midnight on June 19, according to police. The man, believed to be about 50, then exposed himself to her and fled. He is about 5-foot-8, weighs 200 pounds and has close-cropped brown hair, authorities said.
Manhattan
A creep groped a woman in her Inwood apartment building after following her home, cops said Sunday. The pervert, who is believed to be 25 to 35 years old, grabbed the 22-year-old victim’s buttocks as she entered the vestibule of the building on Bennett Avenue at about 4🌱:30 p.m. on June 19 and 💃then fled, police said.