NYC Crimes News

A 13-year-old girl has become the fourth suspect arrested in connection with the fatal beating of a Queens cabbie, police said Wednesday.

The teen was nabbed Tuesday and charged with gang assault and theft of service for her alleged role in the Aug. 13 Rockaways confrontation in which yellow cabbie Kutin Gyimah was killed. Her name was not released because she is a minor.

Another teen girl is still being sought.

At first, police said the incident began with an attempted robbery. But police said Thursday that the incident began when the group refused to pay their fare.

A young woman's account of being attacked on a New York City subway is going viral, and now she's speaking out exclusively to Eyewitness News about the harrowing incident.

"I was looking down and the next thing I know, I heard a slap," 22-year-old victim Vesly Beato said. "I didn't even feel the slap. I heard it first."

That was last Friday afternoon.

"When I look up everybody is staring at me. I look at my cousin, she's crying," Beato said. "That's when it sunk in, this man just hit me."

Beato and her 15-year-old cousin were on the uptown 1 train heading home to Inwood. As it pulled into the West 66th Street subway station by Lincoln Center, a man slapped her hard in the face and then ran off

A 23-year-old woman was slashed after she and her partner accidentally bumped into a man on a Lower Manhattan subway train, police said Thursday.

It happened around 12:41 p.m. on Aug. 25 aboard a northbound No. 4 train.

Police said that after the couple bumped into the man, a verbal argument turned physical.

“Then one guy got out [of the Mercedes],” said a witness, who gave his name as Nour, 22, who said he worked at Yorkville Deli Market.

The video shows a man with a blue mask covering his chin exit the Mercedes and then proceed to pound at the Toyota’s windshield with a gun.

“He’s got a gun! He’s got a gun!” a passerby yelled.

The Toyota driver, who police said was 55 years old, stepped out of his car with his hands up and the armed man snatched a bag from inside the car, witnesses told The News.

Nour said the stunned victim told him there was cash in the bag.

A 56-year-old U.S. Postal worker was pistol whipped and forced to open a Bronx post office to a man who stole more than $100,000 in cash and blank money orders Tuesday morning, according to police.

A man cornered a tourist in a Midtown subway station, then took her to multiple different stations before raping her on a platform, police said Thursday as they released a sketch of the suspect.

The 21-year-old victim had taken a Greyhound bus from St. Louis when she encountered the assailant around 3 a.m. on Sept. 1, inside the 42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal station, police said.

The man then took the woman on an "excursion" to multiple subway stations, according to an NYPD spokesperson, who could not name any of the stations.

At the final, unidentified station, the man took the woman to the end of a platform, toward the tunnel, and raped her, police said.

A 14-year-old Bronx girl went missing nearly a month ago, police said Thursday.

Sariah Joseph was last seen on Aug. 10 at her Webster Avenue home, officials said. Police have now asked for help finding the missing teen.

She’s about 5 feet, 4 inches tall. The teen has a medium build, brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a white t-shirt and blue shorts. Anyone with information has been asked to contact the NYPD.

A group of armed thugs slashed a 30-year-old tourist from Belgium in the face Saturday morning in an unprovoked attack at a Chelsea subway station, police said. The four or five assailants set upon the victim as she walked down the southbound staircase with a group of companions at 8:43 a.m. at the A/C/E station at West 23rd street and Eighth Avenue, police said. The attackers approached her and cut her face, leaving her with a wound that was treated at the scene, the NYPD said. wrote:A group of armed thugs slashed a 30-year-old tourist from Belgium in the face Saturday morning in an unprovoked attack at a Chelsea subway station, police said.

The four or five assailants set upon the victim as she walked down the southbound staircase with a group of companions at 8:43 a.m. at the A/C/E station at West 23rd street and Eighth Avenue, police said.

The attackers approached her and cut her face, leaving her with a wound that was treated at the scene, the NYPD said.

The NYPD is searching for a man who bashed a stranger's face with a brick in an unprovoked attack on a Chelsea street this week.

Police released video Wednesday showing the suspect picking up the brick from a tree bed shortly before the random, daylight assault Monday.

The 18-year-old victim was in front of a residence on W. 20th Street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, around 11:30 a.m. when his attacker came up and struck him in the face with the brick, police said.