Crime & Safety
Man Pulled Out Of Car And Robbed Of Jewelry In Inwood: VIDEO
A person was yet again violently robbed of their jewelry and car in a recent early morning attack in Upper Manhattan, police said.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — Another violent jewelry robbery took place in Upper Manhattan over the weekend, the New York Police Department announced on Monday.
Around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, a 23-year-old man was pulling his black BMW out of a parking spot in front of 1793 Riverside Drive in Inwood, when he was surrounded by a group of bikers, a video of the incident shows.
One of the men hops off his bike and points a gun through the passenger side window, while another man opens the driver side door and pulls the 23-year-old out of the car, police said.
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The group punches the driver in the face and snatches his necklace before driving away with his car, police said.
The 23-year-old was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital with a cut eye and a broken nose, police added.
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Police released a video Monday of the robbery and attack.
There are no arrests in the robbery and the investigation remains ongoing.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
On Aug. 9, three people were arrested in connection to a different violent jewelry robbery in Inwood that led to the death of a 28-year-old neighborhood resident.
At the time, police also did not say if the three people arrested were responsible for the string of violent jewelry-related robberies that happened in Inwood during June and July.
On June 11, in the area of 565 West 207th Street, four people ran up on a 23-year-old man, grabbed him, and began attempting to remove his jewelry, according to police.
After the man resisted, one of the attackers fired a gun multiple times, hitting the 23-year-old in his chest, butt, and leg, police said. The group then ripped a watch off the man's hand and fled in a white Mercedes-Benz driven by a fifth individual, a police spokesperson told Patch.
The 23-year-old was taken to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in stable condition.
Ten days later, Milton Grant, was sitting in a car with a friend at 175 Dyckman Street when a group of attackers rushed the car and shot him in the head. A surveillance video shows the man who shot Grant jumping into the car and taking his chain, watch and ring, while the Queens resident died in the driver's seat.
The other passenger was also shot and had his chain necklace stolen, but survived, police said.
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