Staten Island
A Staten Island rapper who appeared in a video with the group TLC and has shared a stage with Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur and Big Daddy Kane turned himself in Wednesday in connection with a deadly hit-and-run in New Brighton on New Year’s Day.
Shyheim Franklin, 36, also known as Manchild and The Rugged Child, was the alleged driver who fled the scene of the accident that killed a man on Lafayette Street and Cassidy Place around 5 a.m. Jan. 1, police said.
Felipe Avila, 29, was driving his Toyota Celica to work when Franklin blasted through a stop sign in his friend’s 1996 Volvo, smashed into Avila’s car, bailed from the car and ran off, authorities said.
Franklin’s blood allegedly splattered on the driver’s-side air bag, law- enforcement sources said.
Avila was rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Franklin has a history of arrests that includes a bust last April for possession of more than 40 bags of heroin and a .32 caliber revolver, sources said.
On Tuesday, Franklin posted a video on Facebook pleading with friends, family and fans to donate to his legal defense. Franklin has performed freestyle with big- name acts at Madison Square Garden and once lived with a member of the Wu-Tang Clan in the Stapleton Houses.
Manhattan
An executioner shot a Harlem bar patron in the head and then beat the dying victim, cops said.
The 33-year-old victim was drinking at PJ’s on Powell Boulevard near West 133rd Street around 3:10 a.m. Wednesday when a gunman came up and shot him, police said.
The unidentified shooter then beat the dying man before running out of the bar, cops added.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The suspect was last seen wearing a pair of khakis and a blue bubble jacket.
The victim had 20 prior arrests, 12 of which were sealed. Most involved drug possession.
His name has not been released because his family has not been notified.
Cops are looking for a knife-wielding attacker who stabbed a man in Chinatown.
The 26-year-old victim was on Henry and Oliver streets around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday when he was approached by two men who tried to rob him of his duffel bag, according to police.
One of the suspects pulled out a blade and stabbed the victim in the lower abdomen, cops said.
The duo fled empty-handed and the victim walked into the Fifth Precinct station house to report the crime before being rushed to Bellevue Hospital, police said.
The victim was in stable condition, police added.
The Bronx
A female livery cab driver was robbed at knifepoint in Soundview — after she was nice enough to make a pit stop at Kennedy Fried Chicken, cops said.
The suspect called for the cab service and asked to be picked up on Bruckner Boulevard near Rosedale Avenue at 1:40 a.m., Tuesday, according to police.
The rider asked to stop at the eatery on Storey and Rosedale avenues before going to his final destination on Trinity Avenue, cops said.
The 34-year-old driver made the stop, but when the car arrived at Trinity Avenue, the passenger claimed he had no cash and asked the driver to wait downstairs with his cellphone so he could get money, police added.
The passenger returned with a knife and demanded the hack’s cash instead, according to cops.
The thief made off with at least $220 and a white Samsung Galaxy cellphone, police said.
Queens
A Peruvian restaurant was burglarized in East Elmhurst, cops said.
The suspect walked in through the front door of Rico Peruvian Cuisine on Steinway Boulevard, near 36th Avenue, at 5 a.m. Sunday, cops said.
He snatched $100 from the register and fled, according to police.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the suspect had a key or if the door was left unlocked.
Police are questioning employees to determine if it was an inside job.