60th Precinct
Coney Island—Brighton Beach—Seagate
The People’s Slay-ground
A gunman shot a 37-year-old man — execution style — on W. 33rd Street on Jan. 17.
The victim was between Neptune and Mermaid avenues at around 8:30 pm when his assassin put two bullets into the back of his head, cops said.
Paramedics pronounced him dead at 9:27 pm, according to police.
School of hard knocks
Some schoolyard bullies attempted to rob a 16-year-old boy as he was waiting for the bus home on West Avenue on Jan. 8.
The victim told police that he was near Ocean Parkway at 1 pm when another group of kids jumped him. One of his underage attackers hurled him against a parked car before yelping, “give me what you have in your pockets!”
Fortunately, the kid’s pockets were empty, and his would-be robbers fled empty-handed, cops said.
Registry error
A thief looted a Harway Avenue store on Jan. 9, taking a register filled with cash.
The snake slithered into the shop between Bay 47th Street and 28th Avenue at 8 pm through an unlocked bathroom window in the building’s rear, cops said. Once inside, the invader simply snatched the register, along with the $3,000 it contained, and exited the store through a hallway leading outside, according to police.
Surveillance footage showed the crook pause for a moment on his way out as a neighbor came into view, but, lucky for him, the passerby took him for a worker, and went about his business, cops said.
Hubbard heist
A raider ransacked a man’s Hubbard Avenue home on Jan. 17, taking cash and jewels.
The victim told police he walked into his home between Avenue Z and Shore Parkway at 5:45 pm, only to find he was short $15,000 and a small fortune in jewels. He later discovered that the crook likely entered through a second-floor window above an awning, cops said.
When tykes attack
Two teenage delinquents nabbed a phone from the hands of a 55-year-old woman on Brighton Sixth Court on Jan. 11.
The victim told police she was near Brighton Beach Avenue at 3:30 pm, when the pint-sized punks ran up and snatched her phone.
Handsy man
Cops busted a 47-year-old man man who they say reached into a man’s pocket and took his phone on Brighton Sixth Court on Jan. 12.
The victim, a 50-year-old man, told police he was near Brighton Beach Avenue at 2 am when the suspect waltzed up and barked, “what’s in your pocket?”
Without further ado, the man allegedly thrust his hands into the victim’s pocket, and came away with his phone before fleeing, cops said.
— Colin Mixson