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MANHATTAN

* Police yesterday identified Michael Davis (right) as the fifth suspect in a string of gunpoint hold-ups at upper Manhattan bodegas and newsstands over the last two months.

Between April 25 and May 25, Davis, 41, and four cohorts allegedly robbed a dozen groceries and newsstands on the Upper East and West Sides.

Police have already arrested Tyrone Washington, 18, Andre Allen, 23, Rashid Graham, 18, and Boston Traxler, 33, and charged them with robbery.

Anyone with information is urged to call the Manhattan Robbery Squad at (212) 614-6755.

* A 17-year-old man died after he was shot on a Harlem street yesterday, police said.

Damien Samuels was attacked on West 136th Street near Seventh Avenue at around 1 a.m., and was shot several times in the torso. He died at Harlem Hospital.

The motive for the shooting was not known and police have no suspects.

* A man was shot in the head yesterday in a Harlem apartment building, cops said.

The unidentified victim, who was taken to Harlem Hospital, was shot for unknown reasons in a building on West 146th Street. He is in critical condition.

* Police yesterday released the name of a 47-year-old man who was shot to death on the Upper East Side. Ernesto Gomez was discovered with a chest wound at around 10 a.m. Sunday in the East 65th Street apartment building where he lived, cops said.

He was taken to New York Hospital, where he died. No arrests have been made.

* A man was slain and another man was seriously wounded in a shooting in front of a restaurant on Lenox Avenue at West 127th Street last night, cops said.

One man, 29, was shot several times in the torso around 10:30 p.m. and died at Harlem Hospital about 50 minutes later.

A 53-year-old man, who was shot in the hand and groin area, was also taken to Harlem Hospital, said police. The shooter fled. (lcf replate)

BROOKLYN

* A Canarsie man was charged with murder yesterday after he fatally stabbed his girlfriend’s ex-lover on a Brownsville street corner, police said. Rubin Bramble, 29, and his girlfriend got into an argument with Ramone Ellis on Eastern Parkway and Saratoga Avenue at around 11 p.m. Sunday, cops said.

Bramble allegedly stabbed Ellis several times in the torso.

Ellis, who had a child with the woman, was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he died.

* An off-duty Manhattan cop was arrested for drunken driving early yesterday after he hit a car parked on a Brownsville street, police said.

Anthony McNeil, 36, assigned to the 28th Precinct, was trying to park his car on Thomas Boyland Street near Sumpter Street at around 1 a.m. when he struck the other car, cops said.

He then allegedly got into an argument with his neighbors and responding cops, who placed him under arrest. McNeil, who was suspended, refused a Breathalyzer test and was charged with drunken driving and menacing, authorities said. It was not immediately clear what he did to merit the menacing charge.

* Another NYPD officer was suspended yesterday, after a petit-larceny suspect escaped from the 66th Precinct station house, police said. Byron Chow was suspended after Patricia Lyons, 41, fled the Borough Park station house on 16th Ave. shortly after 1 a.m.

It was not immediately clear how she allegedly escaped. About an hour later, cops nabbed her in a homeless shelter on 93rd Street. No details were released on the larceny arrest.

* Two gun-wielding thugs shot a man in the hand on a Canarsie street yesterday before fleeing, police said. The reasons for the 11:30 a.m. shooting at the corner of Remsen Avenue and Avenue D were not clear, cops said.

The suspects fled in a white, two door Honda. The 28-year-old victim was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

* A city correction officer was arrested yesterday for menacing his family with a gun during an argument at a relative’s apartment in Kensington last week, police said.

Eugene Wood, 38, assigned to the Manhattan House of Detention, was charged with menacing and harassment as a result of the June 10 incident. No injuries were reported.

THE BRONX

* An unlicensed livery driver was shot and wounded in Williamsbridge yesterday during an argument with two passengers, police said.

The 39-year-old victim was driving a man and woman to the corner of East 216th Street and Paulding Avenue at around 1:30 a.m. when one of them shot him once.

The couple fled and the victim was taken to Montefiore Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

QUEENS

* Police yesterday identified a 21-year-old man who was shot and killed on a South Jamaica street.

Cops responded to a 911 call at the corner of 125th Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard at around 8:30 p.m. Sunday and discovered Jamal Gregory with a neck wound.

He was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where he died. Police did not know the motive for the shooting. (m)

* A man robbed a Flushing bank at about 1 p.m. yesterday after slipping a teller a note.

The robber escaped the Astoria Federal Savings Bank at 71-20 Kissena Blvd. with an undetermined amount of cash.

* Two swastikas were spray-painted on the front of Hillcrest HS, and cops are investigating it as a bias incident.

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