NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
STATEN ISLAND
A racially motivated dispute between a band of white youths and an African-American teenager in the Eltingville section led to four injuries and a continuing police probe, cops announced yesterday.
The bias-related incident occurred at 2 a.m. Monday when an 18-year-old black woman visiting from South River, N.J., was walking with five friends – two girls and three boys, all of whom are white or Hispanic, a police source said.
The girl and her friends were at Tennyson Drive and Armstrong Avenue when they strolled into a nearby park and encountered a band of approximately 17 white youths, 15 of them boys.
That’s when the larger group began hurling racial epithets at the black teen.
“She asked, ‘What’s your problem?’ and she and her pals walked away,” said one source.
After moving to a nearby bench, she and her friends sat undisturbed for about 25 minutes.
Then a number of white boys from the larger group confronted her and her friends and began assaulting them, police said.
The black woman was punched in the face and another boy was cut on his hand with a bottle, suffering 17 stitches.
A third youth was punched and kicked and suffered facial bruising, while a fourth youth was cut on his hand with sickle, police said.
The incident was reported to police Friday and detectives were still conducting interviews with victims yesterday, a police spokesman said.
THE BRONX
A 33-year-old man was killed early yesterday in the Kingsbridge Heights section when a gunman shot him numerous times, police said.
Police said Robert Burke, of Jersey City, was sitting in his 2003 Chevrolet station wagon in front of 2767 Sedgwick Ave. at 12:10 a.m. when the shooter opened fire, striking the victim several times.
Burke, who has an arrest record for narcotics, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was declared dead.
QUEENS
A 21-year-old woman was critically injured late Friday while crossing a Douglaston street when an unlicensed motorist plowed into her, police said.
At 11:20 p.m., Yvette Rojas, of 260th Street, was walking south across Northern Boulevard at 245th Street, when she was struck by a 1995 Chevy driven by Raheen Fernandez, 24, that was heading east on Northern Boulevard.
Rojas was taken to a local hospital in critical condition with massive injuries, police said.
Fernandez, of Freeport, was charged with driving with a suspended license, police said.
BROOKLYN
A 21-year-old man was shot dead while riding a bicycle outside his Brownsville home yesterday, police said.
Dwayne Mumford was gunned down just before 4 p.m. in a courtyard outside 619 Rockaway Ave., cops said.
A law-enforcement source said that Mumford was struck in the chest, leg and armpit, killing him instantly.
Police last night had no suspect or motive.
A dice game turned violent in Ocean Hill early yesterday and resulted in two men being shot and wounded and a third being killed, police sources said.
The gunplay erupted just before 1:30 a.m., when two gunmen began firing pistols at three men sitting on a bench in a courtyard at 309 McDougal St.
Travis Walton, 24, of Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brooklyn, was hit once in the head and declared dead at the scene.
Darryl Smith, 32, of Blake Avenue, was struck once in the arm and taken to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition, and Timothy Arnold, 38, was hit once in the chest and taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in critical condition.

