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NYPD Daily Blotter

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The Bronx

Cops are looking for the person who punctuated a violent early-morning confrontation in Tremont yesterday by fatally stabbing a 17- year-old boy.

Officers responding to a report of gunfire at 1:21 a.m. on Bathgate Avenue near East Tremont Avenue found Damien Martinez knifed in the chest. He was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital.

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This sketch (top photo) depicts the suspects in the fatal mugging of a man sitting in his car in broad daylight.

Ernest Atiso, 34, was shot dead at 5 p.m. Tuesday in his Dodge Charger at Davidson Avenue and West 174th Street.

The gunmen fled with a cellphone and cash.

Brooklyn

What a meathead.

Shantel Martin, 29, wanted for allegedly ripping off a meat deliveryman in Brownsville at 4:45 p.m. on March 19, was busted Thursday.

Cops said Martin nearly hit the 65-year-old Modern Meats employee as she zoomed off from Lott Avenue near Strauss Street without paying for the meat he’d just loaded into her 1999 Chrysler.

The man helped nab Martin by giving investigators her cellphone and license-plate numbers.

Queens

The man pictured here (bottom photo) is suspected of fracturing a 66-year-old stranger’s skull during a robbery in an Elmhurst subway station.

The victim was hit with a metal object at 10:48 p.m. on April 8 in the 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue stop. His assailant then fled with his cellphone.

The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital.

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A 45-year-old man was in critical condition after falling victim to a ruthless hit-and-run while crossing 69th Street at Roosevelt Avenue early yesterday, cops and witnesses said.

The man, whose identity was not released, was hit by a black sedan at 5:30 a.m. The severity of his injuries was determined at Elmhurst Hospital.

“I saw blood on his forehead, the right side,” said Tony Rivera, 65, who works nearby.

Cops said that the driver fled south on 69th Street and that they were scouring surveillance videos for clues.

Manhattan

A con man posing as an employee of a lower Manhattan electronics store allegedly swindled a shopper out of $1,450.

José Rivera, 56, claimed to work at J&R Electronics, on Park Row near Broadway, when he met the mark at 2 p.m. Monday in front of the store and told him he could score a discounted TV for him, cops said.

The mark handed over the cash, and Rivera told him to wait outside.

But when he entered the store, a sharp security guard stopped him and called the police.

Rivera was charged with grand larceny.