MANHATTAN
Cops are asking for the public’s assistance in finding an elderly Upper West Side man who vanished last month.
Henry Shoats , 71, of West 108th Street, was last seen on Nov. 16, cops said.
Shoats stands 5-foot-9, weighs 175 pounds and was sporting a black knit cap, a blue shirt, a blue-and-gray sweater, and khaki pants.
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Detectives traveled to Pennsylvania to nab a teen who murdered a man in Harlem, police said yesterday.
Jerome Ford Jr., 18, allegedly shot 24-year-old Luis Hiraldo multiple times in the torso at the corner of West 142nd Street and Broadway at 3 a.m. on June 9, cops said.
Hiraldo died 18 minutes later at St. Luke’s Hospital.
Ford faces murder and weapon-possession charges, a DA’s spokeswoman said.
Police did not reveal a motive in the slaying or where in Pennsylvania Ford was picked up.
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A bicyclist hit by a bus in Midtown Thursday has died, police said yesterday.
Franco Scorcia, 72, was eastbound on West 40th Street and made a right onto Broadway when a private charter bus on Broadway slammed into him at 6 p.m., cops said.
Scorcia, who lived in The Bronx, was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
Police said that the bus driver received no summons and that there appeared to be no criminality in the tragedy.
THE BRONX
More details emerged yesterday of the bizarre subway death of a woman in East Tremont.
The unidentified 37-year-old was allegedly urinating as she rode between cars on a northbound No. 2 train when she fell between the cars at 9:30 p.m. Thursday.
The train had pulled out from the East Tremont station and was headed toward East 180th Street when the woman toppled over, police said.
She was pronounced dead at the scene. Cops do not believe foul play contributed to her death.
BROOKLYN
Authorities said the man pictured above held up a Fort Greene bank at gunpoint.
The man walked into a Washington Mutual bank branch on Dekalb Avenue near Fleet Street at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, passed an envelope to a teller, and threatened the worker with a handgun, cops said.
The bank employee handed over an undisclosed amount of money, and the thief fled on foot.
The suspect was described as a dark-complexioned black man believed to be in his 60s, about 5-foot-10 and 165 pounds, and wearing dark-colored clothing and dark glasses.
STATEN ISLAND
A Port Richmond teen was busted for gunning down another youth in Arlington, authorities said yesterday.
Frankie Nelson, 19, allegedly shot the 19-year-old victim in the hands for unknown reasons behind the Arlington Terrace Apartments on Holland Avenue near Richmond Terrace at 4:20 p.m. on Nov. 30.
The victim was listed as being in stable condition last night at Richmond Memorial Hospital.
Nelson is charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal use of a firearm and weapon possession, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
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A convicted drug dealer was collared with a knife in Stapleton early yesterday, law-enforcement sources said.
Anticrime cops spotted Leroy Miller, 54, suspiciously fidgeting with his waistband at the corner of Bay and Thompson streets at 12:30 a.m. and stopped him because they thought he had a gun, the sources said.
What the officers thought was a pistol turned out to be a gravity knife, authorities said.
Miller, who has served two stints in prison for drug dealing, is charged with weapon possession, a Donovan spokesman said.
QUEENS
Police yesterday identified two people found dead in their Flushing home in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday.
Chunyu Yin, 34, was strangled to death by Huo Zhong, also 34, inside their fifth-floor apartment on 35th Avenue near Northern Boulevard when she tried to break up with him, cops said.
The bodies were found by a friend at 5:25 p.m. Thursday, three days after they were last seen alive, authorities said.
Investigators said they believed that Zhong stabbed himself to death.
The couple did not have a history of domestic violence, police said.