MANHATTAN
A gang of thugs beat a man to death in East Harlem, police said yesterday.
The violence occurred Monday at around 10 p.m. on the corner of East 114th Street and Third Avenue, where Victor Mosso and his two friends got into a dispute with three to six unidentified men that escalated into a physical altercation, cops said.
The assailants fled.
Mosso collapsed to the ground and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are hunting for a masked gunman they say snatched $12,000 from a CVS store on the Upper East Side.
The robbery occurred around 9:30 p.m. Monday on Lexington Avenue near East 87th Street. A gunman approached two employees, ages 21 and 27, and ordered them into a back office, cops said.
He forced the two women to open a safe where the cash was stored. The suspect fled. No one was hurt. The victims’ names were not released.
Cops are investigating a possible bias incident on the Lower East Side in which anti-Semitic remarks were painted on the side of a recently renovated apartment building.
The remarks were discovered yesterday at 12:30 a.m. on Orchard Street near East Houston Street.
A neighborhood resident said the remarks were painted in the stripes of an American flag.
BROOKLYN
A man was seriously hurt and his friend was injured after they were attacked at an Ocean Hill apartment building, police said yesterday.
The incident occurred Monday around 6 p.m. on Stone Avenue near Blake Avenue, where two assailants stole a 39-year-old man’s wallet and stabbed him several times as he entered his friend’s 11th-floor apartment, police said.
The man managed to flee and call cops. Police responded to the apartment, where they found a 37-year-old man under a pile of clothes with head injuries, police said. He was taken to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition.
The 39-year-old was brought to the same hospital in stable condition. Their names were not released. Cops were searching for the assailants and a motive.
A man was slapped with a maximum three-year prison term yesterday for posing as a city marshal and stealing $8,500 from 16 car owners, said Emily Gest of the Department of Investigation. Michael Wade, 34, pleaded guilty to a felony “scheme to defraud” in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
Between February 2001 and April 2002, Wade pulled 20 scams in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx, where he confronted his victims as they approached or left their offices, Gest said.
QUEENS
A driver was killed yesterday after his car and a tractor trailer smashed into each other in Ozone Park, cops said.
The accident occurred about 5:30 a.m. as the trailer turned off 104th Avenue onto Liberty Avenue and collided with the car heading east on Liberty, cops said.
The car driver, whose name was withheld pending notification of his family, was pronounced dead at the scene. The truck driver was not hurt.
A man was seriously hurt yesterday after his car collided with a Triboro Coach Bus in Jackson Heights, police said.
The accident occurred about 1 a.m. when the bus crashed into Mario Pulgarin’s Acura at the corner of 35th Avenue and 81st Street, cops said. Pulgarin, 41, was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital in critical condition. The bus driver and a single passenger were not hurt.
THE BRONX
A 21-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday in an alley behind a Bruckner apartment building, police said.At around 5:30 a.m., cops responded to a 911 call on Ward Avenue near Bruckner Boulevard, where they found Jerold Miller with a gunshot wound to his torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators were trying to find the gunman and a motive.
The death of a woman in a South Bronx apartment has been reclassified a homicide, police said yesterday.
Police discovered the body of Kiles Delosantos, 22, with two stab wounds to her chest Monday on Grand Concourse near East 159th Street.