Daily Blotter
The Bronx
Investigators released a surveillance image Wednesday of a suspect in a Tremont shooting that left a man dead and a woman critically wounded. The gunman opened fire on Nestor Suazo, 25, and a 34-year-old woman on East Tremont Avenue near Clinton Avenue just after 7:55 p.m. Saturday, cops said. Both victims were rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital. Suazo could not be saved. The woman was in critical condition.
A 20-year-old man was shot on a Mount Hope street corner, authorities said Wednesday. The victim was standing near Grand Concourse and East Burnside Avenue at around 8:35 p.m. Tuesday when the shots rang out, police said. One round struck the man in his torso, cops said. He is on the mend at St. Barnabas Hospital. The gunman stands about 5-foot-5, and was wearing a gray sweater.
A creep roughed up and robbed a senior on a Mount Eden street, cops said Wednesday. The mugger pounced on the 69-year-old woman on East 170th Street near Wythe Place at around 5:50 a.m. Monday, police said. The crook manhandled the victim before running off with her purse, containing $125, a cellphone and credit cards, cops said.
Manhattan
A robber pistol-whipped a man during a stickup in the victim’s Washington Heights apartment building Wednesday morning, cops said. The 22-year-old victim was walking up the stairs in the building on Sherman Avenue near Sickles Street at 7:20 a.m., when he was met by a crook brandishing a gun, police said. The thief demanded the victim’s property, and fired one warning shot when the victim hesitated, authorities said. He then bashed the victim’s forehead with the butt of the gun, and ran off with his cellphone and cash, cops said. It was not clear if the victim had to be hospitalized. The thug is about 30 years old, 5-foot-8 and 175 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes.
Police have arrested two men wanted in the burglaries of several Morningside Heights homes. Joe Stanford and Kenneth Butler, both 48, each face multiple counts of burglary for the spree that began in April, authorities said. The two first broke into three apartments in a single building on La Salle Street near Broadway between 4 a.m. and 8 p.m. April 23, police said. They busted the apartments’ locks, let themselves in, and scooped up cash, jewelry and electronics, according to police. Stanford and Butler were allegedly at it again Sept. 2, when they tried to break into an apartment on West 123rd Street near Broadway between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m., authorities said. But they fled empty-handed when they couldn’t pop the lock, said cops.
Queens
A perv wearing black-framed glasses and a knitted cap groped a woman aboard a train passing through Astoria, cops said Wednesday. The creep rubbed his hand across the 35-year-old victim’s rear as the northbound N train rolled into the Broadway station at around 6 p.m. Friday, according to police. When the woman confronted the sicko straphanger, he grabbed her butt a second time before hopping off the train, authorities said. The quick-thinking victim snapped this photo of the perv. He’s in his early to mid-30s, stands about 6-foot-1, with a stocky build, and has blue eyes.
Four crooks robbed a man at gunpoint in Astoria, according to authorities Wednesday. The thieves spotted the 30-year-old victim on 34th Street near 36th Avenue at around 6 a.m. on Sept. 6, and hopped out of their Nissan Altima to confront him, cops said. One of the stickup men trained a gun on the victim as the gang demanded his property, police said. The thieves grappled with the victim and stripped him of his jewelry and iPhone before piling back into the gray four-door, authorities said.

