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* A pistol-packing thug shot and killed a teen on an East New York street yesterday after they got into an argument over a girl, police said.

Kelvin Little, 17, suffered head and chest wounds on Hendricks Street near Flatlands Avenue at around 5 a.m., when an unidentified man pulled a gun and opened fire, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The shooter fled.

* A Rikers Island correction officer was charged with assault early yesterday after he got into an argument with his girlfriend in a Crown Heights apartment, cops said.

Carl Baldwin, 39, was arrested on Troy Avenue near President Street at around 12:30 a.m. A Correction Department spokesman said Baldwin is going to be suspended.

* A 28-year-old man was shot in the back early yesterday after a gang of thugs attacked him on a Canarsie street, police said. The man, whose name was not released, was strolling on East 102nd Street near Seaview Avenue just after midnight when a group of unidentified men accosted him and one of them pulled a gun.

The gunman shot the victim before fleeing with his cohorts. The wounded man was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

* An East New York man has been arrested for accosting a 21-year-old man on the street and shooting him in the buttocks, cops said yesterday. Police did not know what triggered the shooting, but said Cory Taylor, 29, drew a gun and opened fire on Belmont Avenue near Autumn Avenue at 8 p.m. Monday.

The victim was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. Taylor was charged with assault and gun possession.

* Anti-Semitic slurs were found scrawled on the hood of a car in Flatbush, police said yesterday. A 26-year-old woman who owns the vehicle discovered the vandalism on Crown Street at around 4 p.m. Monday.

* An elderly man suffered a severed arm and a broken leg yesterday when a city sanitation truck plowed into him on a Bay Ridge street, cops said.

The 74-year-old pedestrian, whose name was not released, was hit by the truck on 78th Street near Sixth Avenue at around 7 a.m.

He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, where he was listed in serious condition.

No arrests were made and no summonses were issued.

STATEN ISLAND

* A 16-year-old boy was arrested early yesterday after a cop spotted him in a stolen car on a Sunnyside street, authorities said.

Kevin Williams was sitting behind the wheel of a 2003 Honda, with the key in the ignition, on Clove Road and Creshire Place at around 3:30 a.m., cops said. The vehicle was reported stolen June 20.

Williams was charged with criminal possession of stolen property and unauthorized use of a vehicle, authorities said.

* A 35-year-old man has been busted for pummeling and choking someone in a Stapleton apartment, authorities said yesterday.

Corey Spellman punched the unidentified person in the face, head-butted the victim in the stomach, and stomped on the victim’s foot in the Grand Street apartment at around 1 a.m. Sunday, cops said. The victim suffered a black eye and bruises to her face, neck and stomach.

Spellman was charged with assault and harassment.

THE BRONX

* Two bandits wearing ski masks are being sought in connection with a string of gunpoint robberies in The Bronx and Staten Island that netted them more than $100,000 in cash, police announced yesterday.

Between Feb. 11 and April 3, the robbers, brandishing handguns, walked into five banks and stole the money from behind counters before fleeing, cops said.

The four Bronx heists took place at a Citibank on Baychester Avenue in Eastchester, a North Fork Bank on West 231st Street in Kingsbridge, a Banco Popular on Castle Hill Avenue in Unionport and a Chase Bank on Castle Avenue in Castle Hill.

The Staten Island robbery occurred at a Richmond County Bank on Port Richmond Avenue in Port Richmond.

One suspect is described as a Hispanic man in his 20s, between 5 foot 6 and 5 foot 8. The other suspect is described as a black man in his 20s, and about 5-foot-10.

* An off-duty Housing Authority employee was charged with harassing his ex-girlfriend at her Kingsbridge apartment after he violated an order of protection, cops said yesterday.

John Chin, assigned to code enforcement, pounded on the door of Jeannette Santana’s Kingsbridge residence at around 12:30 p.m. Monday and allegedly yelled, “Let me in. You know you are my woman. You are mine.”

MANHATTAN

* A probationary police officer was suspended yesterday after he failed a drug test at One Police Plaza, cops said. Richard Valdez was suspended from the Police Academy.

QUEENS (s, lcf)

* The decomposed body of an Astoria woman was found inside her 19th Street home yesterday afternoon, police said.

The corpse was discovered at around 12:20 p.m., when Edward Guida, a city marshal, went to the fourth-floor apartment with the woman’s landlord and a locksmith to evict her.

Neighbors said she hadn’t paid rent since February.

Police said the dead woman’s age and nationality were unknown, but neighbor Gertrudis Soto said the victim is from Peru, and had a 15-year-old daughter living with her.

The apartment did not appear to have been ransacked, cops said, and the corpse may have been there for four to five months.

An autopsy is planned.

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