BROOKLYN (s, lcf)
* A man was shot dead yesterday by an assailant who opened fire at a city housing project in Coney Island, police said.
The victim, 20, whose ID was withheld pending family notification, was shot several times in the head outside a building on Bayview Avenue near West 33rd Street at 6 p.m.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police do not know the motive.
MANHATTAN
* Four Pennsylvania men were arrested on drug and weapons charges after cops pulled them over for driving recklessly in Hamilton Heights, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Malcolm Belfon, 22, Kevin James, 24, Gregory McLeary, 23, and Harvey Renwrick, 24, were driving south on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard at West 140th Street on Saturday morning when three cops in an unmarked car pulled over their 2004 GMC Yukon, sources said.
When the officers from Manhattan North Borough Crime [hec: cq name of unit – please leave it in: ]approached the SUV, they saw the four men smoking marijuana and arrested them, the sources said. They then searched the vehicle and allegedly found three guns – a .357 Magnum, a 9mm Ruger and a Smith & Wesson.
The suspects, all from Philadelphia, were charged with marijuana and weapons possession.
* The body of an Upper West Side man was found on the subway tracks near the West 163rd Street station yesterday, police said.
Alberto Hernaiz, 35, was spotted by the operator of a southbound C train about 10 feet north of the station. His legs had been severed and he was dead at the scene. The motorman stopped his train before hitting Hernaiz, but it’s likely he was hit by another train, authorities said.
Hernaiz’ family told The Post he suffered from drug and health problems related to a childhood fall.
“He was suffering from seizures since he was 11,” his sister Darlene said.
The seizures would cause Hernaiz to become disoriented and run without realizing where he was going, she said. (s, lcf)
* An unidentified man was struck and killed yesterday by a subway train in a Washington Heights station, police said.
The man, in his 30s, was hit by an uptown C train in the West 163rd Street Station at Amsterdam Avenue at around 4:20 p.m., and pronounced dead at the scene.
Police were investigating whether the man fell, jumped or was pushed. (m)
STATEN ISLAND
* A man has been arrested in a Tompkinsville shooting, police said yesterday.
Reynold Cato, 20, brandished a gun when he confronted the 28-year-old victim outside an apartment building on Benziger Avenue at around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Cato then allegedly fired about five shots, hitting the man once in his left thigh. The victim, whose name was withheld, was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital of Staten Island, where he was listed in stable condition.
Police later arrested Cato and charged him with assault. His motive was unknown, cops said.
QUEENS (lcf)
* Police are investigating a bias incident in which anti-Semitic insults were found scrawled yesterday in Kew Gardens.
The slurs were carved into the street, sidewalk and a flower bed in front of a synagogue and a yeshiva on Abington Road near 83rd Avenue.
THE BRONX
* Police are investigating whether the 9-year-old boy hit by a stray bullet on a Longwood street last week was the victim of a gang-related shooting, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
The violence began at about 10 p.m. Friday, when two groups got into an argument outside a store at Westchester and Intervale avenues, sources said. During the dispute, bottles were thrown and shots rang out.
One of the bullets struck the boy in his right shoulder as he was walking toward the store, the sources said. The youngster was not seriously injured.