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A man died yesterday after he was shot in Brownsville — then got into a car wreck while being driven to a hospital, police said.

The 26-year-old victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was shot by an unidentified gunman at Junius Street and Riverdale Avenue at about 6:30 p.m. The assailant, whose motive was unknown, ran off.

As a friend drove the victim to Brookdale Hospital, he got into an accident and fled on foot. The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.

Police said the victim had a criminal record.

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An argument over a parking spot ended up with a smashed windshield and the arrest of one of the bickering motorists, authorities said yesterday.

Pierre Jhims, 25, and a 43-year-old man were trying to park in the same spot on Eastern Parkway at 10 a.m. last Thursday.

When one refused to yield to the other, Jhims allegedly began yelling, and punched the windshield of his adversary’s 1995 Volvo, partially cracking the glass, cops said.

Jhims sped away but the victim followed and called 911, cops said.

Police arrested Jhims for reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.

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In another case of road rage, cops made an arrest after one motorist allegedly rammed the vehicle of another in retaliation for being sideswiped in Prospect Heights, cops said yesterday.

Rafael Torres, 50, and the 42-year-old victim were driving in separate cars southbound on Flatbush Avenue near Sterling Place at 8:25 a.m. last Thursday when the victim struck Torres’ side-view mirror.

Both men pulled over and got into a fistfight, cops said. The victim then jumped into his car and raced away.

Torres drove after him and rear-ended his car at a light, cops said.

Torres was charged with assault, menacing and reckless driving. The victim suffered minor injuries.

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Two thugs beat and robbed a livery driver in East New York, police sources said yesterday.

The unidentified men hailed a cab and told the driver to take them to Montauk Avenue and Linden Boulevard at about 1:10 a.m. May 28, sources said.

When they got there, the passengers pummeled the driver in his face and swiped his wallet, BlackBerry, $120, keys and jacket before fleeing. The victim was not seriously injured.

Queens

Two revelers viciously beat and slashed a man during an argument outside a Rego Park bar, police sources said yesterday.

The trouble started about 8 a.m. May 31, when the victim clashed with one of the assailants as they were both leaving the Queens Boulevard bar. Cops said they didn’t know what sparked the fight.

The second thug then approached and slashed the victim across the face with a sharp object. The victim needed several stitches to close the cut.

The suspects fled.

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A 6-year-old girl at a Jackson Heights Laundromat with her mom was molested by a sicko doing his own wash, police said yesterday.

The 5-foot-9, 160-pound man repeatedly kissed the girl at the laundry on Northern Boulevard near 74th Street at 7:20 p.m. May 29.

An alarmed witness alerted the girl’s mother, who confronted the man. He fled, and no arrests have yet been made.

Manhattan

A 16-year-old girl told police she was held hostage for several days and raped by a 19-year-old man in his Harlem apartment.

The victim told cops she had met the youth at a family party in 2008 and they soon started dating.

About a year later, however, the victim learned that he had a wife in Mexico, and ended the relationship.

But last Jan. 8, the man allegedly approached her as she was going to school and asked her if they could talk back at his West 146th Street apartment.

Once inside, the man allegedly raped her, refused to let her leave for several days and ordered her not to say a word.

She got away and reported the allegations to police on May 29.

Bronx

A man was shot in a Mott Haven park yesterday, police sources said.

The 38-year-old victim was in the park on East 146th Street near College Avenue at 3 a.m. when he said the shooter sidled up to him, asked him what he was doing, then suddenly started shooting, the sources said.

The victim, hit in the wrist and shin, was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. The shooter fled.

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