Forest Hills Car Attack, Shooting Leaves Man Hospital, Police Say

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — A residential street in Forest Hills lit up with police sirens on Monday night, after a man was shot and hospitalized following an attempted robbery, police said.

Around 9:15 p.m. a man, 51, was sitting in his car at the corner of 113th Street and 72nd Road in Forest Hills, when two unknown men walked up to the driver's seat door and demanded that he hand over valuables, records show.

The men then hit the 51-year-old in the head with a gun, and one of them shot him in the arm and chest before running away down 72nd Road towards Grand Central Parkway, he said.

After being helped by police, the injured man was taken to the hospital where he is in "stable condition," NYPD records show.

As of Tuesday morning, no arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing.

This is the second recorded police incident in Forest Hills, a largely-residential neighborhood in Central Queens, in the past several days: Over the weekend a young man died in the nearby 71st Avenue Subway after a turnstile-jumping mishap.