Brooklyn
A paintball prankster attacked a woman in Williamsburg, cops said on Wednesday.
The 30-year-old victim was hit with the white paintballs moments before she walked into the John and Hylan Houses at Humboldt and Seigel streets at 4 a.m. July 11, according to police.
The woman, who was struck on the right side of her face and her right arm, heard a popping sound, but did not see her attacker, police said.
She refused medical attention at the scene, they said.
A 13-year-old girl was shot on a Brownsville street, cops said on Wednesday.
The victim was with a group of pals at St. Marks and Saratoga avenues at around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday when they got into an argument with a rival, and an unidentified triggerman shot her in the forearm, police said.
The girl, a known gang associate, was rushed to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, authorities said.
Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a teenage thief who snatched a woman’s iPhone aboard a subway train as it pulled into a Bedford-Stuyvesant station.
The 44-year-old victim was on a northbound A train pulling into the Utica Avenue station at 12:45 p.m. May 13 when the man ripped her iPhone 5 from her hand and fled as the doors opened, authorities said.
The crook, believed to be between 16 and 18 years old, was wearing a blue, short-sleeve shirt with the word “Hurley” on the front in white letters, dark jeans and sneakers. He is between 5-feet-7 and 5-feet-10 and weighs 160 to 180 pounds.
Manhattan
Police on Wednesday released surveillance video of two thugs linked to a home invasion on the Upper West Side in which a couple was slashed over the weekend.
The crooks managed to slip past the doorman on West End Avenue near West 104th Street at about 3:45 a.m. Saturday and take the elevator up to the 17th floor, police said.
The two knocked on an apartment door, and when a 24-year-old woman answered, they forced their way inside, clubbing the woman and her hip-hop producer boyfriend, 32, with a metal flashlight, cops said.
The couple fought back, however, stabbing one of the thugs in the stomach during the ensuing melee, police said.
The crooks fled the apartment empty-handed, and the couple was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital with minor injuries, authorities said.
The bald thug is believed to be in his late 40s or early 50s, stands between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs about 200 pounds, according to police.
His accomplice, believed to be about 40 years old, is between 5-feet-8 and 5-feet-10 and, like his cohort, weighs 200 pounds.
The Bronx
A thief burglarized a Throggs Neck florist shop, cops said Wednesday.
The crook snipped the front gate locks of Jerome Florist and Gifts on East Tremont Avenue near Dill Place at 9 p.m. July 9 and slipped inside, according to cops.
The burglar then made a beeline for the register, taking an undetermined amount of cash before exiting the store, police said.
The thief is estimated to be 25 years old, 6 feet tall, and about 200 pounds.
A stick-up man stole $900 and an iPhone from a woman in a Parkchester hotel, officials said.
He approached the 22-year-old victim in a common area of the Sheridan Hotel located on the Sheridan Expressway near the Bronx River Parkway at 4:30 a.m. June 13.
The thief whipped out a black revolver and took her money and phone, according to cops.
He fled with his spoils, leaving the victim unharmed, police said.
The thug, believed to be in his 30s, is about 6-feet-3 and 220 pounds.
He has brown eyes and short black hair and was wearing a red baseball cap, a black sweat shirt and dark-blue jeans.