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NYPD Daily Blotter

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Queens

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A would-be rapist attacked a 21-year-old woman in Kew Gardens Friday, police said.

The woman was walking at 115th Street and 85th Avenue when she was grabbed from behind, thrown to the ground and groped, cops said.

A passing car startled the suspect (pictured above), and he fled, police said.

He was described as about 5-foot-9 and 180 pounds with a mullet, light-colored shorts and a T-shirt, police said.

Manhattan

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A 41-year-old man who had been arrested several times was found mortally wounded on a Harlem street early yesterday, police said.

Officers responding to a 911 call found the yet-to-be-identified man shot in a leg on West 152nd Street near Eighth Avenue at about 5:45 a.m. He was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital.

His police record included charges ranging from assault and burglary to drug possession and public lewdness.

Police said they were withholding his identity pending the notification of next of kin.

The Bronx

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Police are looking for a gunman (above) who wounded a 26-year-old man in Bedford Park.

The suspect opened fire at the corner of Bainbridge Avenue and East 198th Street at 10:20 p.m. Friday, police said.

The victim was hit in a hand and was listed last night as being in stable condition at an area hospital, cops said.

The suspect was last seen wearing a blue tank top and shorts.

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One man has been arrested and cops are searching for two more suspects in a terrifying incident in which a University Heights couple was tied up and robbed at gunpoint in their apartment.

Julio Cuello, 22, and his suspected accomplices, Volquez Rishel and Luis Almanzar (pictured above), allegedly knocked on a door in a building at East 177th Street and Watson Avenue at 10:30 p.m. May 2 and told the couple that water was leaking into the apartment below.

The trio then forced their way into the home — which included the residents’ 3-year-old daughter — bound the couple, ransacked the place and made off with cash and cellphones, according to investigators.

No injuries were reported, police said.

Cuello was arrested Saturday on burglary, robbery and weapon charges, cops said. Rishel and Almanzar, both 21, are being sought.

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This duo (above) is being sought as suspects in the shooting of a 17-year-old boy in the right leg in Hunts Point over the weekend, according to authorities.

One of them opened fire on the corner of Leggett Avenue and Fox Street at 6:50 p.m. Friday, police said.

The handgun was then passed off to the other, and they both fled, investigators said.

Brooklyn

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A Brooklyn bank manager foiled a robbery yesterday, law-enforcement sources said.

A woman walked into a TD branch in Midwood at 10:26 a.m. and slipped a teller a note saying she was being held against her will and demanding money — from her own account, the branch manager said.

The manager called 911, and responding officers took two alleged kidnappers and the woman in for questioning, officials said.

The woman, who turned out to have a history of prostitution arrests, told detectives that she was raped Saturday by four men whom she knew and was forced to demand the cash, law-enforcement sources said.

The men with her were arrested, and she was held for further questioning, cops said.

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A 53-year-old MTA worker fatally shot herself in the head at work yesterday, law-enforcement sources said.

The woman, whose name was not released, went to a bathroom at the Flatbush Avenue-Brooklyn College station and did not come out.

As her job required her to take cash from clerks’ booths, she carried a gun.

Horrified colleagues found her at around 1 p.m. and called police. She did not leave a note.