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The superintendent of a Williamsbridge building was shot dead outside his home, police said.

Edgar McCalla, 58, had been arguing with a man at the building where he works on East 226th Street near Bronxwood Avenue at 11 p.m. Thursday.

The foe pulled a gun and fired a single shot, striking McCalla in the face, sources said.

McCalla died at Jacobi Hospital.

Police are continuing the hunt for a suspected killer 12 years after a fatal stabbing in East Tremont.

Cops say Anthony Velez (above), 31, stabbed Corey Gilchrist, 27, to death on Monterey Avenue near East 179th Street on Nov. 15, 1996.

Velez, whose last known address was on Arthur Avenue a few blocks from the scene, is considered armed and dangerous.

Cops recently took a fresh look at the case and while re-interviewing neighborhood sources pinpointed Velez as a suspect, authorities said.

Brooklyn

Two would-be shoplifters were busted in an East New York clothing store, police said.

Ronald Cornelius, 27, and Tracy Collie, 28, walked into the VIM store on Rockaway Avenue near Belmont Avenue at noon Thursday and were recognized by a security guard as having been busted for shoplifting there in the past, sources said.

He called police, who arrived as the two men were leaving, the sources said.

Cops spotted a bulge in Collie’s pocket, stopped and searched the suspects, and in Collie’s possession found two large magnets and a pair of pliers, authorities said.

Cornelius had a magnet and a can of Mace in his pocket, sources said.

The magnets and pliers are used to remove anti-theft devices from merchandise, police said.

The men were arrested and charged with possession of burglary tools, said a spokesman for DA Charles Hynes.

Manhattan

Cops are hunting for a pair of armed bandits wanted for a string of store robberies in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx.

In each case the crooks stormed into the shops and escaped with undisclosed sums of cash, police said.

Cops said the crooks most recently struck on Jan. 20, when they robbed a T-Mobile store on Flatbush Avenue near Park Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at 11:30 a.m.

The duo struck again on Jan. 12, when they robbed the Wireless Uncles phone shop on University Avenue near West 179th Street in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx.

Earlier, the pair robbed an AT&T store on Varick Street near West Houston in the West Village; a T-Mobile store on West 32nd Street near Sixth Avenue in Midtown; an electronics store on the Grand Concourse near East 181st Street in the University Heights section of The Bronx; and the Wireless Cafe on Third Avenue near East 84th Street on the Upper East Side.

Two men were arrested in a shooting that left one man dead and another wounded in East Harlem.

Sinneh Banqura, 18, and Xavier Classen, 20, had gotten into a fight with two men on 103rd Street near Third Avenue at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when Banqura pulled a gun and opened fire, police said.

Tyrell Jordan, 21, was shot once in the chest. He was taken to Metropolitan Hospital, where he died, police said.

In the shooting, a 24-year-old man was shot once in the right thigh.

On Wednesday, cops tracked down and arrested the two suspects.

Cops are hunting a note-passing bank bandit (above) who recently targeted a Wall Street branch.

The bandit marched into the TD branch on Wall Street near Broadway at 4 p.m Tuesday, slipped a teller a demand and fled with an undisclosed sum of money, sources said.

He’s in his mid-20s to early-30s, stands 6 feet tall and weighs 200 pounds.

He was last seen wearing a brown leather jacket, a black knit hat and blue sweatpants, police said.

A visitor from Philadelphia was arrested for drunken driving in Graniteville, law-enforcement officials said yesterday.

Vladimir Valovatsky, 50, was behind the wheel of a Lexus when cops stopped him for a traffic infraction Thursday at 8:15 p.m. on the Staten Island Expressway near the Martin Luther King Expressway, cops said.

When an officer approached the car, he noticed the driver had watery and bloodshot eyes and a strong smell of alcohol on his breath, sources said.

Valovatsky was administered a Breathalyzer test that found his blood-alcohol level to be over the legal limit, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

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