The Bronx
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A 23-year-old Bronx man arguing with a group of strangers was stabbed to death early yesterday, sources said.
Quran Lucas, of East 161st Street, was found with a single puncture wound to the chest at 2:35 a.m. in the lobby of a building on Concourse Village East, cops said.
He was pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital, according to investigators, who added that several suspects were being questioned.
Manhattan
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Maybe he should sleep with one eye open.
A 58-year-old man was jolted awake by two burglars, who then proceeded to tie him up and ransack his Harlem apartment, police sources said.
The man was in his bedroom in his St. Nicholas Avenue building when the thugs — yelling, “Where’s the money?” — whacked him in the face with an unknown object at 4 a.m. Monday, the sources said.
The two allegedly duct-taped his hands and mouth and went out a window with their haul — $50 in cash, a Chase bank card, an Apple computer and an iPhone 5.
The man told investigators that he could not identify the suspects because the room was so dark that he couldn’t get a good look at them.
He was treated for minor injuries at St. Luke’s Hospital and released.
Brooklyn
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A 23-year-old woman barely foiled an early-morning attempt to abduct her at gunpoint as she walked home from a bus stop in Flatlands, law-enforcement sources said.
She had just gotten off the No. 6 bus and was walking on Bergen Avenue near Avenue K at about 2 a.m. Monday when a man behind the wheel of a dark-colored, older-model minivan with out-of-state plates tried to get her attention, the sources said.
When she ignored him and kept on walking, the sources added, the van sped away — only to return minutes later and follow her for yet another block.
Then the man drove up to the curb, flashed a black handgun and sneered, “I tried it the nice way. Now get in the van!”
The woman instead ran, screaming, in the direction of her home, and an alert neighbor called the police. The van took off and vanished into the night, investigators said.
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Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect in the fatal shooting of a man in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Rashawn Jackson, 29, was found in the foyer of a Jefferson Avenue building at 9:50 p.m. July 5, cops said.
He had been shot several times and was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital, they added.
Surveillance cameras in the area showed the suspect holding a gun in his right hand as he ran east on Jefferson Avenue before turning south on Marcus Garvey Boulevard, police said.
Queens
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A 42-year-old man literally took a bite out of crime when two muggers tried to steal his phone in Hollis Hills, sources said.
The man was walking west on Union Turnpike at 3 a.m. Monday when he realized he was being followed by two teens, according to law-enforcement sources.
Making believe that he needed to tie his shoe, he stopped on the corner of 209th Street and stepped aside, hoping that the duo would walk on by, sources said.
Instead, one of them reached for the man’s cellphone while barking, “Don’t make a move!”
The man told police that he refused to hand over the phone and soon found himself grappling with the thief as they tumbled toward the sidewalk.
So he chomped down on the thug’s back, he added, causing the teen to drop the phone and join his accomplice in flight — although not for long.
They circled back in a car and — with a third person — jumped the man, then fled.
There had been no arrest as of last night.