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A worker was killed and two others injured yesterday when they were electrocuted in a construction accident, police said.

The incident occurred shortly after 3 p.m. when three employees of CAC Industries were attempting to secure a metal cable swinging from a crane at a construction site on Beach Channel Drive, between Beach 52nd and Beach 53rd streets in the Rockaways, cops said.

Authorities suspect that while performing that task, either the crane or its cable somehow came into contact with a nearby power line, sending a powerful electrical current through the cable and shocking the workers.

Thomas Tierney, 35, was rushed to Peninsula General Hospital, where he died an hour after suffering burns throughout his body.

Anthony Nelson, 42, was standing in a puddle of water at the time and was injured.

Mitchell Gust, 40, was also shocked.

Both men are in stable condition.

A gas-station worker was shot and wounded by a fellow employee in Long Island City yesterday, police said.

A 47-year-old man was arguing with a man brandishing a gun at the gas station at 41st Avenue near 23rd Street around 6:30 a.m. The gunman fired a single round, hitting the man in the arm and chest.

The victim was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. His attacker fled in a dark-colored vehicle.

Bronx

A 20-year-old man was shot in the stomach after an assailant accosted him on a Pelham Bay street, police said yesterday.

The victim was shot for unknown reasons at Buhre Avenue near Pilgrim Avenue at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, when the unidentified man pulled a gun and opened fire.

The victim drove himself to Jacobi Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

A New Jersey man was charged with aggravated harassment for making annoying phone calls to his estranged wife at her Longwood apartment, authorities said yesterday.

On Oct. 24, Michael Melendez, 37, repeatedly made calls to his 32-year-old wife at her Bryant Avenue residence regarding his child-support payments, cops said.

Melendez walked into the 41st Precinct station house and surrendered to police on Thursday.

A 6-month old High Bridge boy died last night after relatives discovered he was unconscious, police said.

After his family called 911 from an apartment at 1055 University Place, the infant was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The cause of death won’t be known until an autopsy is completed, authorities said.

Brooklyn

Police yesterday identified a teenager shot and killed on a Brownsville street.

Kenneth Bright, 19, stepped out of his apartment building at Dumont Avenue near Rockaway Avenue around noon Thursday and began walking across the street.

An assailant approached Bright and opened fire at him, hitting him twice in the chest.

Bright was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he died. The shooter, whose motive was not known, fled.

A Brooklyn man was charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a 41-year-old man in a Far Rockaway apartment, police said yesterday.

Anthony Viera, 25, allegedly stabbed Tyrone Stigall twice in the chest in the bedroom of Stigall’s residence at 20-34 Seagirt Ave.

Police arrested Viera on Thursday near his Kensington home at the corner of Cortelyou Road and Coney Island Avenue.

Authorities are investigating suspected foul play after two fires forced the closure of Brooklyn Technical HS yesterday.

Students were evacuated and sent home after fires started around 9:30 a.m. on the second and seventh floors. The fires were isolated and extinguished easily by 10:30 a.m., officials said.

No one was hurt, but the school was closed because of smoke and flooding conditions.

School sources said it’s the third time this year the school had to be evacuated because of a fire.

The incident is under investigation by police and fire marshals, an FDNY spokesman said.

A 13-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder on a Brownsville street yesterday, police said.

The teen was shot at Patchen Avenue near Halsey Street around 4 p.m., when an assailant approached and opened fire at him.

The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. The shooter, whose motive was not known, fled.

Manhattan

Swastikas were found scrawled in crayon on walls in a Washington Heights apartment building yesterday, police said.

The vandalism was discovered in the fourth-floor hallway and the lobby of the building at Laurel Hill Terrace and West 186th Street around 10 a.m.

A hooded man walked into a Chelsea bank yesterday, slipped a note to a teller demanding money and fled with $600 in cash, police said.

The robbery took place around 3 p.m. at the Fourth Federal Bank on West 23nd Street near Seventh Avenue.

A homeless man was arrested yesterday after he and a female accomplice robbed a Morningside Heights bank, police said.

Melvin Monsanto, 65, and a woman in her 30s entered the Chase branch at West 109th Street and Broadway around 4 p.m.

The woman handed a note demanding money to a teller, who forked over cash.

The robbers fled with the loot as bank employees called 911. Police arrived at the scene and apprehended Monsanto near the bank.

Staten Island

A 43-year-old man has been arrested for deliberately ramming his car into a woman on a Ward Hill street last month, authorities said yesterday.

On Oct. 31, Alberto Ramos was driving at Avon Place near Edgar Terrace around 9 p.m., when the car’s front bumper hit the woman, bruising her leg.

Ramos was charged with two counts of assault, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon.

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