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* Two men were shot dead in Far Rockaway early yesterday when a thug approached their car and opened fire, police said.

Sources said Shannon Day, 33, and Rudolph Michelle, 32, who were in a Lexus, pulled up to a stop sign on Gateway Boulevard and Mott Avenue at 1:30 p.m. when an unidentified man in his 20s walked up, pulled a gun and shot them both in the head. The shooter, whose motive was not known, fled.

One victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The other was taken to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, where he died.

* A man was apparently electrocuted in Corona early yesterday on the third rail of the LIRR tracks, police said.

The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was found unconscious on the tracks at 44th Avenue and 114th Street at 5:30 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

* Police are asking for the public’s help in finding an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s who disappeared in Jamaica. Patricia Beazer, 64, of The Bronx, was last seen on Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue on July 16.

Beazer is described as black, 5-foot-5 and 138 pounds, with salt-and-pepper hair and a cut on her lower jaw. She was wearing a silver ring on her left hand and a rose ring with a pearl setting on her right hand.

Anyone with information should call (800) 577-TIPS or the Missing Persons Squad at (212) 473-2042.

MANHATTAN

* A drug suspect escaped from police custody yesterday in Harlem, police said.

Jorge Rivera, 24, was arrested for alleged criminal possession of a controlled substance on East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue at about 3 p.m.

He was put into a transport van to be taken to the 25th Precinct station house.

Rivera escaped through the rear door of the van a couple of blocks from where he was arrested, cops said.

He is the 16th person to escape police custody this year, cops said. (s, lcf)

* A bicyclist was killed early yesterday when a private bus plowed into him on an Inwood street, police said. The unidentified man was riding on Broadway at Isham Street just after midnight when the bus heading north on Broadway struck him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

* A 51-year-old man was killed yesterday when fell off his bicycle and was run over by a truck on an Upper East Side street, police and witnesses said.

The man, whose name was not immediately released, was making a right turn from East 60th Street onto Third Avenue at 9:30 a.m. when he fell off the bike and slid under the truck, police said.

THE BRONX

* A man and woman were arrested in Mott Haven after cops found two guns and a large bag of marijuana in the woman’s apartment, authorities said yesterday.

Police responded to an anonymous call of guns and drugs in the residence on East 145th Street near Brook Avenue at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Police said that after cops were let inside and given permission to search, they found the bag of marijuana, a .32-caliber gun and 9 mm semiautomatic with a laser sight in the bedroom.

Cops arrested Heddekel Ozuma, 22, and Jaiman Shavone, 20.

* A 39-year-old man was in stable condition after being shot in a Morrisania store, police said yesterday.

The victim suffered a stomach wound in the shooting on East 165th Street near Union Avenue at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital.

STATEN ISLAND

* A 16-year-old youth has been arrested after stealing two cars in Arden Heights, authorities said yesterday.

Drew Padell is accused of driving off in a 2003 Ford Focus after he spotted the keys inside.

He also allegedly stole the keys to a 1997 Chrysler, took it and spray-painted it.

BROOKLYN (m)

* Two swastikas were scrawled in ballpoint pen on walls in a midwood apartment building, police said yesterday.

A 58-year-old man discovered the vandalism in the first and eighth-floor hallways of the building on Ocean Parkway and Avenue I around noon Tuesday.

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