Queens

A trio of thugs masquerading as Con Edison employees pistol-whipped and robbed two men of $20,000 in a home invasion yesterday, police sources said.

The victims were sleeping in the house on 142nd Street in College Point when two of the thieves burst in at around at 7:45 a.m., demanding to know where the money was, sources said.

After pistol-whipping and duct-taping the victims, the robbers – who used to two-way radios to communicate with each other and an accomplice outside – fled with the money, law-enforcement sources said.

The victims were taken to New York Hospital of Queens, where they were treated and released.

A Springfield Gardens man was charged with attempted murder yesterday in the shooting of a 29-year-old man, police said.

Sources said Serge Casimir, 27, pulled a gun and shot the victim in the hip at 149th Avenue and 230th Street at 2:30 p.m. Saturday after the victim was lured to the location by Casimir’s associate.

Casimir and another gunman shot the victim four more times, hitting him in the neck, shoulder and stomach. They also took money from his pocket before fleeing.

The wounded man was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. His condition was later upgraded to serious.

Casimir fled, but was captured early yesterday by police after further investigation.

A spokesman for Queens DA Richard Brown said Casimir was also charged with assault, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.

A woman in her 50s leaped to her death yesterday from an Astoria apartment building, police said.

The body of the woman, whose name was not immediately released, was discovered in the courtyard of the building on 33rd Street near 31st Avenue at 9:30 a.m.

Manhattan

Police yesterday identified a Brooklyn woman who was apparently strangled in a Midtown hotel.

The naked body of Sonydad Gaspard, 18, was discovered lying face-down in a room at the Days Inn Hotel on Eighth Avenue near 48th Street around 1:30 p.m. last Thursday. No arrests have been made.

Brooklyn

Two gun- and bat-wielding thugs beat and shot a man to death on a Borough Park street, police said.

The assailants, described as white or Hispanic men, approached Altair Mosqueha, 27, at 37th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway around 4 p.m. Monday carrying weapons.

One of them bashed the man, whom police described as homeless, in the torso with the bat; the other shot him in the stomach.

A .380-caliber semiautomatic handgun was found at the scene.

The suspects, whose motive was not known, fled in a light blue Dodge Caravan.

Mosqueha was taken to Lutheran Medical Center, where he died.

Law-enforcement sources said various immigrant groups stake out corners of the intersection at informal day-labor markets.

The sources speculate Mosqueha may have gone to the wrong corner and angered someone.

Bronx

A 28-year-old man was in critical condition yesterday after he suffered head injuries during an attack at an SRO building in Fordham, cops said.

Police did not know what triggered the attack or how many assailants were involved, but said the injured man was found in the building on Morris Avenue near West Kingsbridge Road at 11:30 p.m. Monday.

He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital.

Cops arrested a Pelham Parkway man yesterday in connection with the March murder of an Allerton teen.

Marco Barone, 22, of Lurting Avenue is charged with murder and weapons possession in the March 7 shooting death of 19-year-old Damian Bravo, police said.

Bravo was found slumped over in his car at the corner of Westervelt and Waring avenues just before 8 a.m.

Police sources said Bravo’s death may have been the result of a drug deal gone bad. They speculated that Barone had lured him with the promise of drugs, then shot him twice in the head and robbed him of several thousand dollars.