Brooklyn
A 59-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a pervert who lured her into a Crown Heights building and choked her until she passed out, authorities said. The victim was sitting on a park bench on Eastern Parkway and Albany Avenue Saturday at about 6 p.m. when the suspect approached and engaged her in conversation, cops said. After the woman said she needed to find a bathroom, the man brought her to an apartment building five blocks away on Albany Avenue, where he choked her on a basement stairwell and forced her to perform oral sex, according police. He then brought her into the basement, where he choked her again until she passed out and sexually assaulted her for a second time, police said. The woman was brought to an area hospital, where she was treated and released. The suspect is believed to be 60 years old, 5-foot-10, 200 pounds and with a scarred, discolored eye.
A driver was killed and two of his passengers injured after their Nissan sedan struck a median exiting the westbound Belt Parkway and crashed into a light pole. The single-car crash happened Sunday at 1:15 a.m. when the driver, 21, lost control of his vehicle at Erskine Street, police said. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene, cops said. A 27-year-old man who was in the back seat was clinging to life at Brookdale Hospital with severe trauma, authorities said. A 19-year-old woman in the front passenger’s seat suffered hip and leg injuries and was in stable condition at the same hospital, cops said. The investigation is ongoing, but cops do not believe there was any criminality involved.
Queens
A woman was found dead in her Rego Park apartment early Monday, cops said. Police responding to a 911 call at the building on 63rd Drive near Bourton Street at 5:30 a.m. said found the 40-year-old victim unconscious and unresponsive in the third-floor apartment. She was pronounced dead at the scene when EMS arrived. Police said there was no trauma to the body, and it is unknown if there was any criminality. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death. The victim’s identity is being withheld pending family notification, cops said.
Three innocent bystanders, including a 14-year-old boy, were injured after a gunman opened fire on an Edgemere street, authorities said. The teen was riding his bike on Beach 47th Street near Norton Avenue Sunday at about 5:30 p.m. when he heard the gunshots and felt pain in his leg, cops said. He was taken to Wyckoff Hospital, where he was treated for a graze wound to his left calf. A 29-year-old man also was hit in his left calf and a 31-year-old man was grazed in his left calf while they were walking near the scene. Both were taken to St. John’s Hospital in stable condition, cops said. There have been no arrests, and police don’t believe the victims were the intended targets.
Bronx

A teen was caught on surveillance video stealing a Lexus SUV from a driveway in Edenwald — and then returning to the scene two days later to try to do it all over again, cops said Monday. The suspect can be seen entering through the front door of the Ely Avenue house about 9:40 p.m. May 17. He swiped car keys from inside and then drove off with the SUV, according to police. The car was recovered the next day. But the same thief returned to the house again May 19 at 7:50 a.m. and tried to steal the car a second time before running off when a neighbor confronted him, cops said. The suspect is believed to be 16 to 18 years old and weigh 120 to 140 pounds, cops said.
A 9-year-old boy fired a pistol near Fordham University after he found the weapon in a building, police sources said. The child spotted the gun in a lobby on Marion Avenue near East 195th Street on Saturday and picked it up, sources said. It wasn’t immediately clear if he lived there or whom he was with, cops said. He fired the .22-caliber gun once and struck a wall, but nobody was injured, cops said. Investigators are still trying to determine who placed the firearm there.