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An East Harlem man was busted early yesterday and charged with smashing a bat into the face and skull of a 16-year-old boy in East Harlem, police said.
Max Riviera, 21, was allegedly part of a gang that attacked the teen on Madison Avenue near 115th Street at about 1:10 a.m.
The victim was in serious condition at Harlem Hospital last night.
Riviera was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon, and cops said they were looking for the rest of the gang.
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The man pictured here allegedly terrorized two people, including an 86-year-old woman, in East Harlem.
After knocking down the senior citizen in the elevator of an East 106th Street building near Second Avenue at about 5:10 p.m. on May 18, he threatened her with a switchblade unless she forked over all her cash — a total of $6, police sources said.
Two days later, he mugged a 62-year-old man waiting for an elevator in a nearby apartment building at about 1 a.m.
This time, the take was $80 plus credit and ID cards, the sources said.
He is believed to be 5- foot-10 and 190 pounds.
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A bicyclist suffered a head injury when he was hit by a cab near Union Square yesterday morning, said witnesses and a spokesman for the FDNY.
The unidentified man smashed into the taxi’s windshield at about 9:50 a.m. after being struck while crossing 17th Street near Park Avenue, authorities said.
EMS rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in serious condition last night.
The Bronx
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Two suspects were in custody last night in the shooting death of a 21-year-old Florida man and the wounding of his Bronx cousin early yesterday in Westchester Village yesterday, cops said.
Fabian Gonzalez was hit in the chest and his unidentified cousin in the leg at about 2:30 a.m. on Lyvere Street near East Tremont Avenue, police said.
Gonzalez was pronounced dead at Bronx Lebanon Hospital. His cousin was in stable condition there last night.
Charges against the suspects were pending.
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A man was shot dead early yesterday in Claremont Village, and a female companion wounded in the right shoulder and left leg was refusing to cooperate with investigators, police said.
Travis Lane, 22, was hit in the torso at about 2:45 a.m. on Vyse Avenue near East 172nd Street, cops said. He died at St. Barnabas Hospital.
The woman, also 22, is expected to survive, cops said.
Brooklyn
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He was only 18 but already boasted three priors on his police record, and cops were wondering last night whether that had anything to do with his having been fatally shot in the back late Friday in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Isaiah Roberts was found unconscious on Howard Avenue near Hancock Street at 11:35 p.m., cops said. He died at Kings County Hospital.
He’d been charged with menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.