Manhattan
A man was fatally shot in an apartment, and then the killers dragged his body across two building rooftops and dropped it down an air shaft, police sources said.
Derrick Sutton, 50, was shot dead Tuesday, and his body was found at 9 the following morning in the building shaft on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard near the Harlem River Drive, cops said.
The fully clothed body was found with seven gunshot wounds to the face, arms and torso but witnesses didn’t report the gunshots to police, the sources said.
No arrests have been made.
A 29-year-old man was shot on a street in Harlem early Friday, cops said.
The victim was on Lenox Avenue near West 133rd Street at about 4 a.m. when an unidentified gunman came up and fired a bullet into his right thigh, according to police detectives.
He was able to limp to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, authorities said.
No arrests have been made, cops said.
The Bronx
An attacker punched a teen in the face and then a second thug snatched the victim’s iPhone in Wakefield, police said.
One of the suspects clocked the 15-year-old on Nereid Avenue near Murdock Avenue at around 3:30 p.m. Monday, while the other grabbed the phone, cops said.
The duo fled and the victim refused medical attention. The suspects are between 16 and 18 years old, cops said.
The thug who punched the victim is about 5-foot-9 and thin while his cohort is 5-foot-6, police said.
A would-be robber cornered an elderly man in a Soundview elevator but fled empty-handed, cops said.
The suspect followed the 68-year-old victim into an elevator in a building at White Plains Road and East Tremont Avenue at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and pulled a handgun, according to police.
But the robber got cold feet and fled empty-handed, cops said.
The suspect is described as in his mid-20s to age 30 with a thin build.
Brooklyn
Cops want to question three men who may have witnessed a man getting gunned down delivering cash to family members for their Thanksgiving dinner.
Clifford Hubbard, 66, had just parked his vehicle in front of a relative’s house on North Oxford Street near the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in Fort Greene at 3 a.m. on Feb. 22 when someone shot him in the stomach and right arm, cops said.
Hubbard, a Queens resident, died from his wounds at Kings County Hospital, cops said.
Two nicotine fiends stuck up a Boerum Hill deli and escaped with cash and cigarettes.
The armed punks walked into the Natural Plus Deli at Fourth Avenue and St. Marks Place on Oct. 25 at around 1:30 a.m.
Showing a gun, they demanded money and Newports.
The clerk handed over $1,113 in cash and their preferred brand of smokes, cops said.
The suspects are believed to be in their 20s, standing between 5-foot-9 and 6-foot-1.
One wore a gray hooded sweatshirt and the other was wearing dark glasses and a black leather jacket.
Staten Island
A teen thug and two accomplices threatened to slash their victim in an attempted robbery in Mariners Harbor.
Kenroy Gittens, 16, and his two buddies went up to the victim at Roxbury Street and Lockman Avenue at around 4:40 p.m. on Nov. 3 and demanded property, cops said.
Gittens allegedly pulled a knife, turned to his pal and said, “Should I cut him?”
The teen was arrested on Nov. 25 and charged with attempted robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.
The two cohorts are still at large.