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POLICE BLOTTER

Man Who Stumbled Upon Robbery Shot and Killed

A man was shot and killed by a thief as he and two accomplices fled an apartment where they tried to rob five residents on Saturday, police officials said. Earl Williams, 52, was entering 131 Decatur Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn at about 6:30 p.m. when he encountered the robbers. One of them shot Williams in the left shoulder, police said. He was taken to King’s County Hospital and pronounced dead at about 9:50 p.m. Police said the robbers had earlier forced five of the building’s residents into a basement apartment at gunpoint. They commanded the residents – four males and one female – to strip, but found nothing to steal. Police described the suspects as three heavy-set black males, two of whom are about 5 foot, 11 inches, and one whom is 5 foot, 10 inches.

— Staff Reporter of the Sun

Homeless Man Found Dead With Gash in Groin

A homeless man died yesterday in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, police officials said. The unidentified man was found with a deep cut in his groin at the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Park Place by paramedics responding to a 911 call about a man “in need of medical attention.” He was brought to King’s County Hospital at about 7 p.m. and pronounced dead 20 minutes later. Police said they suspect the man was attacked. They are waiting for the medical examiner to determine the cause of death.

— Staff Reporter of the Sun

Police: Driver Was Drunk When He Hit Bicyclist

The driver of a BMW who mistook a bike path for Manhattan’s West Side Highway, hit a cyclist, was arrested on charges of drunken driving and vehicular homicide, police said Saturday. Eric Ng, 22, was riding uptown near the intersection of West Street and Clarkson Friday night when he was hit by a BMW driving south on the path, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the BMW, Eugenio Cidron, 27, was arrested at the scene, police said.

— Associated Press

CITYWIDE

Firefighter Killed Walking On Highway

An off-duty firefighter was fatally injured when he was hit by a car while crossing a highway on foot, police said. David Minerly, 27, was a three-year veteran of the Fire Department of New York. He was pronounced dead at a hospital after the accident at 1:55 a.m. Saturday in Melville, Suffolk County police said. The driver, Gerard Ragone, 47, of Mattituck, was treated at the hospital for minor injuries and was released. His car was impounded for a safety check, but no charges had been filed as of Sunday. Minerly, of the Ozone Park section of Queens, was assigned to the borough where he lived, an FDNY spokesman said.

— Associated Press

Roosevelt Gun Thief To Be Sentenced

A man who pleaded guilty to stealing the gun Theodore Roosevelt used in the Spanish-American War’s most famous battle will be sentenced early next year and is relieved to be putting the matter behind him, his lawyer said. “This has been weighing on him for the past 16 years,” attorney Tom Sommerville said of his client, Anthony Joseph Tulino. The 55-year-old postal worker from DeLand, Fla., pleaded guilty Thursday to violating a law designed to protect cherished U.S. antiquities when he stole the gun, valued at up to $500,000, from a Long Island museum in 1990. He faces up to 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Roosevelt carried the 1892 double-action six-shot revolver when he was serving as the regimental commander of the Rough Riders during the charge up Cuba’s San Juan Hill in 1898.

— Associated Press

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