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del.icio.usA Willoughby Street resident was beaten and robbed on her way home early on May 26, police said.
The 30-year-old was walking on Carlton Avenue, near WilÂloughÂby Street, at 4 am, when she was attacked by a man and a woman walking toward her.
The man snatched the victim’s handbag and punched her in the face, leaving her with a swollen black eye. He then threw her down on the pavement, which left her leg scratched and bleeding, and dashed off toward DeÂKalb Avenue with bag in hand.
Burglars visit
Home construction projects always involve minor setbacks. But this one was more major.
Someone swiped more than a dozen tools, entertainment equipment and a bicycle from a Steuben Street home overnight on May 24, police said.
The 59-year-old owner, who is staying on Hall Street while the work is being done, left his home, between Park and Myrtle avenues, just before midnight. When he returned at 10 am the following day, the glass front door had been shattered. Shards littered the entryway and it was clear someone had been inside.
All together, the items were worth nearly $2,200.
Mystery shoot
Armed thugs seem to be trying to return Myrtle Avenue to its onetime moniker, “Murder Avenue.”
Gunfire rang out for at least a second time this month near Myrtle Avenue, when police said a Navy Street resident was shot at least four times — and survived — near a Hudson Walk housing project on May 23. Bullets struck the victim in the chin, the chest, the left arm and the left leg when they erupted from a building just off Myrtle Avenue, shortly before 10:30 pm.
On May 12, a 36-year-old man was shot several times as he walked into a deli on the corner of Myrtle and Carlton avenues, just two blocks from Fort Greene Park, around 3 am. That same corner was the also site of a May 5 shooting, when a 28-year-old was wounded by gunfire from a passing car around 4 am, police said.
Car swiped
A Brooklyn man’s car was stolen from Grand Avenue while he toiled at a construction site nearby, police said.
The victim parked the Toyota Camry near Gates Avenue at 6:30 am on May 21. When he returned at 3 pm, the 1997 sedan had disappeared without a trace.
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