NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QUEENS
* A father driving with his child in Jamaica was shot in the head by another motorist yesterday in an apparent case of road rage, police said. David Dixon, 25, was driving his 4-year-old son, Nigel, in his Pontiac Grand Am at 8 a.m. when he got into a shouting match with the driver of a dark-colored Lexus in front of 109-20 Sutphin Blvd. The Lexus driver pulled out a gun and shot Dixon twice at point-blank range – once in the head and once in the side – while his son looked on. Dixon was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital where he was listed in critical condition after surgery. The driver of the Lexus fled the scene.
* A school safety agent assigned to Bayside HS was suspended and arrested for stealing diplomas from the school, police said yesterday. Linwood James found himself on the other side of the law at 10:45 p.m. Thursday, when he was charged with petit larceny for the alleged theft. It was unclear what James was planning to do with the diplomas, police said.
* One man was killed and another injured when the car they were riding in crashed into a pole in Long Island City early yesterday morning, police said. The fatal accident occurred around 4:30 a.m. when a Mazda traveling eastbound on Queens Plaza South careened into a pole at Crescent Street. The unidentified passenger died instantly, but the driver was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital.
BROOKLYN
* A rookie cop assigned to the 68th Precinct in Bay Ridge was charged with DWI early yesterday and suspended from the force, police said. Police said only that Officer Raquel Boney was driving through Red Hook when she was arrested.
* A 45-year-old man was stabbed to death during an argument with a friend over a bicycle in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said yesterday. Roy Smith, 26, is charged with murder for plunging a knife into his drinking buddy Keith Henderson’s chest on Thursday, cops said. The argument began around 6 p.m. in front of 479 Nostrand Ave. Cops found Smith, bloody folding knife in hand, a short distance away. Henderson, 45, was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died an hour later.
* A note-passing thief robbed a downtown Brooklyn bank yesterday, police said. The robber entered the Banco Popular at 166 Livingston St. around 9:30 a.m., where he slipped a note to a teller demanding money. He fled with an undetermined amount of cash. Cops described the robber as a 6-foot-2 black male, wearing a denim jacket, glasses and a brown baseball cap.
MANHATTAN
* A man was rescued from the East River by NYPD Harbor cops after he leaped off the 59th Street Bridge early yesterday, police said. The 30-year-old man, apparently trying to commit suicide, plunged into the cold waters just after 1 a.m. NYPD Harbor officers Joseph Stewart and Nick Tanner, who were patrolling near the bridge as part of the Operation Atlas anti-terrorism watch, spotted him and pulled him to safety. The man, whose name was not released, was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he will undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
* A construction worker fell four floors to his death while working inside a West Village building yesterday, police said. Cops said the man was working inside an unoccupied building at 600 Washington St. at 11:30 a.m. when he plunged from the fourth floor.
* An Upper West Side housing project resident was charged yesterday with the murder of a 47-year-old man found shot to death in his building last week, police said. Max Rolon, 32, of 90 Amsterdam Ave., was arrested in connection with the death of Douglas Jones, a homeless man who was found unconscious and bleeding in the hallway of Rolon’s building around 7:30 p.m. last Saturday.
THE BRONX
* An unidentified man was found stabbed to death inside the stairwell of a Belmont building yesterday, police said. The bloody scene was discovered around 9:45 a.m., inside 444 Cyrus Place.


