NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QUEENS
*** Cops are asking for the public’s help in finding a man wanted for fatally shooting a 37-year-old man in a Forest Hills motel room.
Casaba Daroczi was in a ground-floor room at the Boulevard Motor Inn on Queens Boulevard Wednesday morning when the unknown shooter walked in, police said.
A verbal argument boiled over into bloodshed when the suspect pulled out a gun and shot Daroczi once in the chest, cops said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Motel surveillance cameras spotted the suspected shooter fleeing the motel in a dark- colored Chrysler Concord.
Police describe the subject as a black or Hispanic male in his early 30s.
He was last seen wearing a white tank top, faded blue jeans, an embroidered Yankee cap and jacket with the team’s logo on the sleeves and back.
*** Police in Corona have made a second arrest in the killing of a Russian immigrant last month.
Joshua Ryles, 18, was busted on Thursday for allegedly taking part in the shooting death of Andrey Kovalenko, 36, as he walked along the Horace Harding Expressway near 99th Street in the early-morning hours on Nov. 14.
Kovalenko was returning home from late-night work as an electrician when Ryles, John Richardson, 16, and four other teens attacked him outside of Lefrak City, cops said.
Richardson was busted a day after the murder; the four others remain at large.
*** Two teens were busted on gun charges in the Arverne section of the Rockaways after one of them accidentally shot himself in the leg, police sources said yesterday.
Arnold “Fatty” McCray, 16, and a 15-year-old pal were arrested after McCray put a bullet into his thigh inside a basement apartment at 461 Beach 61st St. at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, the sources said.
After a brief investigation, cops realized the story McCray gave them did not add up and quickly arrested him.
McCray and his friend, whose name was withheld because of his age, were allegedly playing with the 9 mm handgun when the weapon went off.
BROOKLYN
*** The paroled burglar being sought for breaking into homes in Brooklyn turned himself in yesterday, police said.
Doneer Legree, 25, strode into a Housing Bureau station around 9:15 a.m., claiming he had a problem with his parole officer.
A desk officer recognized the 6-foot-5, 220-pound suspect, also known as Michael Legree, from wanted photos distributed on Thursday and placed him under arrest.
Legree, who had been paroled twice on burglary and attempted burglary charges, allegedly was a one-man crime wave. He’s suspected of committing five burglaries between Sept. 17 and Nov. 7 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Flatbush and Bath Beach, police said.
*** A Daily News truck driver was smashed in the head and robbed in East New York, police sources said yesterday.
The 43-year-old driver, whose name was withheld, was parked on Ridgewood Avenue when he was attacked at 10:20 a.m. on Thursday, sources said.
After clubbing the victim with what police believe was a hammer, the thief and an accomplice stole about $6,000 from a safe in the back of the vehicle.
The driver was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he received several stitches and was released.
THE BRONX
*** Three masked men made off with more than $600 after they held up a Williamsbridge deli, police sources yesterday.
The thieving trio walked into the Super Star Deli at 788 E. 214th St. around midnight on Thursday, pulled out a long-barrel silver handgun and ordered the two people in the store – a 41-year-old employee and a 27-year- old patron – not to move.
One of the bandits jumped behind a counter and stole $120 from the register and $500 from the store employee.
MANHATTAN
*** The body of a 56-year-old man was discovered in Central Park yesterday.
Alexander Prescott was found lying on a metal grating near East 64th Street and East Drive at 7 a.m., cops said.
Police said Prescott lived in a homeless shelter on West 101st Street.
STATEN ISLAND
*** A knife-wielding thug robbed a Huguenot Beach gas station, police sources said yesterday.
The robber approached an attendant in a booth at the Citgo station at 5205 Hylan Blvd. at 7:05 p.m. on Thursday and dropped something on the ground.
When the 39-year-old attendant stepped out of the booth to see what it was, the thief whipped out a large knife and demanded money.
The attendant handed over $200, and the robber, described as a white man in a plaid shirt, bluejeans and a black hooded shirt, fled.

