Brooklyn
A lottery player was robbed after purchasing tickets at a Clinton Hill convenience store, authorities said.
The 26-year-old victim was exiting 909 Fulton Grocery and Deli on Fulton Street at around 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 6 when the thief displayed the butt of a gun in his waistband and demanded money, cops said.
When the victim claimed to not have cash, the suspect reached into the man’s bag, grabbed 10 lottery tickets and fled.
The thief is described as in his 40s and standing Â5-foot-7, cops said.
Three crooks, one armed with a stick, beat a man for his groceries in East New York, authorities said.
The 33-year-old victim was walking with shopping bags at Autumn and McKinley avenues at around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday when the trio jumped him.
The suspects grabbed his bags and one then beat him with the stick, cops reported.
The victim was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Jamaica Hospital.
The suspects are believed to be in their late teens.
The Bronx
Cops arrested a second suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of a disabled Morrisania man, Âauthorities said.
Julio Velasquez, 20, was arrested Wednesday after he and a pal, Salim Wilson, 22, fatally shot Darin Capehart, 25, at the Forest Houses on East 166th Street at 9:15 p.m. on Jan. 31, according to cops.
Velasquez and Wilson approached Capehart, who suffered from spina bifida, as he was entering the building with two friends and blasted him several times in the chest.
He was pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital.
One of Capehart’s pals, shot multiple times, was listed in stable condition.
Wilson and Velasquez were charged with murder and attempted murder, authorities said.
Velasquez has five prior arrests, for robbery and resisting arrest, cops said.
Manhattan
A masked gunman made off with thousands in cash and jewelry after assaulting and robbing a family in their West Village apartment, sources said.
One of the victims was entering his West 10th Street building near ÂWaverly Place at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday when he was approached by the thief, who pistol-whipped him in the doorway, sources said.
The 32-year-old man was then forced up to his ninth-floor apartment at gunpoint and ordered to open the door.
The brute then barged in and whacked a 47-year-old female resident in the head with the butt of his gun.
The suspect ransacked the pad and pocketed Âbetween $25,000 and $30,000 in jewelry along with $2,000 in cash, sources said.
Both victims were shaken up but suffered only minor injuries.
A straphanger was stabbed at an Upper East Side subway station, authorities said.
The 24-year-old victim was walking into the Â6-train station at Lexington Avenue and East 96th Street at around 10 p.m. Tuesday when a man approached and stabbed him in the shoulder with a small knife, cops said.
The assailant apparently did not try to rob the man and fled after the attack, authorities said.
The victim told police detectives that he wasn’t acquainted with the stabber, cops said.
He received treatment at Mount Sinai Hospital for minor injuries.