Gut check

A gunman shot a 28-year-old man in the stomach on Carlton Avenue on June 21.

The victim said he was shot for no apparent reason by a man he could not describe at 11:20 pm near the corner of Park Avenue.

The police report indicated that a second person was shot, but cops were unable to find this other wounded person.

Skin off nose

A teenager held off a would-be mugger in Fort Greene Park on June 3, but suffered a slash to his proboscis defending himself.

The 15-year-old young man said he was attacked by another teen on the playground near Myrtle and N. Portland avenues at 2:50 pm. The assailant, trying to steal his iPod, cut the victim’s beak with a knife, but fled when he could not wrest away the popular digital music player.

Doggie bag

A burglar broke into a Myrtle Avenue restaurant overnight on June 3 and emptied the cash register.

Workers at La Stalla, a Mexican and Italian joint at Ryerson Street, said the intruder broke in through a side door after 10 pm on June 3 and before 12:30 the following afternoon.

The restaurant claimed that the raider stole $2,815, credit card receipts and a brown bag.

Hard for the money

A burglar’s break-in was cut short on S. Oxford Street when he stumbled upon a woman working in the house on June 5.

The 38-year-old housekeeper told police that she was doing some tasks on the third floor at 1:22 pm when the villain appeared in the unit, which is between DeKalb and Lafayette avenues.

He immediately fled, but it was soon realized that he had stolen a laptop and jewelry from the 54-year-old woman who lives there.

Hood hoodlums

A punk sitting on a teenage woman’s car on Clifton Place punched the owner in the mouth after she told him and his cronies to loiter somewhere else on June 6.

The victim, 19, spotted four teenagers using her vehicle, parked between Grand and Classon avenues at 3 pm. When they wouldn’t abandon their perch, she called 911 on her cellphone. When one of the delinquents snatched the phone from her hand, she grabbed it back, and then to add injury to insult, the miscreant socked her in the kisser, causing a gash.

Ice scream

Police cuffed three teenagers who stole a cash-filled jar from an ice cream truck parked at the corner of Clermont and DeKalb avenues on June 6.

The suspects, 15- to 16-years-old, allegedly yanked the canister containing $100 from the 21-year-old vendor at 6 pm.

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