Manhattan
A sneaky thief stole a woman’s purse at a Lower East Side restaurant, cops said.
The woman snatched the purse inside the Sons of Essex restaurant on Essex Street near Rivington Street on Dec. 12 at around 10:40 p.m., according to police.
The victim left her purse unattended moments before the crook slipped the purse into her own handbag and fled, cops said.
A would-be thief tried to rob a Tudor City bank but fled empty-handed, cops said.
The crook (left) walked into the Capital One bank on East 42nd Street near Second Avenue on Dec. 9 at 3:30 p.m., according to police.
He handed a demand letter to a teller but ran out with the note, cops said.
The Bronx
Two people were gunned down in separate incidents at the same University Heights building, cops said.
Chad McFadzean was inside an apartment on the Grand Concourse near East 178th Street, when he was shot by an unidentified gunman Friday at around 5:20 p.m., according to police.
He was found with gunshot wounds to the torso.
McFadzean, who has prior arrests including criminal possession of a weapon and assault, was rushed to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
Shells from a 9mm firearm were recovered from inside the apartment where McFadzean was found unconscious, cops said.
Investigators pulled video surveillance from the building and discovered a second victim — a woman who was shot outside the same building
Cops later found bullet fragments from a .45-caliber handgun outside, near where she was shot.
No information was available on the woman’s condition, but cops have been able to identify her.
She was seen exiting through a side door near 178th Street moments after McFadzean was shot.
Cops are still investigating a connection between the cases.
No suspects have been identified.
Brooklyn
Cops have arrested an 18-year-old man who allegedly shot a teen in Brownsville.
Iquan Williams was shot in the head on Prospect Place near Eastern Parkway on Jan. 4 at around 10:30 p.m.
He was found unconscious and unresponsive with a single gunshot wound, according to police. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The name of the alleged gunman has not yet been released as charges were pending, cops said.
Police are looking to question a person of interest in the death of an East New York deli clerk.
Cops were responding to a robbery at the 979 Deli and Grocery on Stanley Avenue near Cleveland Street on Jan. 10 at around 5 a.m. when they discovered Hisham Zidan, 55, in the basement, according to police.
He had a laceration to the head.
Zidan was pronounced dead at the scene, cops said.