‘Extremely dangerous’ knife-wielding man roaming NYC rooftops

The risk of crime in New York Metropolis now comes from all instructions, even above.

Hell’s Kitchen residents had been shaken this week by social media studies of a person armed with two lengthy knives roaming roof to roof in broad daylight and trying to interrupt right into a five-story West forty eighth Avenue co-op via its bulkhead door final Sunday.

Surveillance video obtained by the Publish reveals there was a second tried intrusion of the identical constructing simply 12 hours later, earlier than dawn early Monday morning. It seems to be a unique man than the primary.

“The town is turning into complete madness,” wrote Andrea Woolf on Nextdoor.

Video of the primary tried break-in exhibits a skinny man with darkish garments and big mop of black bushy hair climb from a neighboring constructing. He’s sporting headphones and sporting what seems to be a messenger’s knapsack slung over his left shoulder. He has a big tattoo on the left facet of his neck within the form of a star and indecipherable letters tattooed over his left eyebrow. The backs of each fingers are additionally lined in tattoos.

Hell's Kitchen residents are on edge after reports of a man armed with a knife attempting to enter a West 48th Street co-op in broad daylight.
Hell’s Kitchen residents are on edge after studies of a person armed with a knife trying to enter a West forty eighth Avenue co-op in broad daylight.
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At one level he casually holds up the blades in his fingers as if to indicate them to the surveillance digicam. When his effort to open the door to the constructing failed, he walked over to the roof of one other adjoining constructing and disappeared from digicam view.

“The police know of him they usually say he's mentally ailing and very harmful,” constructing resident Lori Goodman posted on Nextdoor with an image of the person after a gathering with Midtown North Precinct officers.

The tried break-in is beneath investigation, police stated.

The knife-wielding artificial sufficient noise to seize the eye of the constructing supervisor in his top-floor condo. He ran as much as the roof along with his spouse however noticed nothing out of the extraordinary. He seemed on the video afterward and realized that they missed a face-to-face encounter with the armed man by about 10 seconds.

“It was an in depth name,” the supervisor stated, including that in 25 years he’s by no means identified of an armed intruder making an attempt to entry the constructing via its roof.

He was shocked later within the week when he checked out video once more and noticed the second tried break-in round 5 a.m. Monday. The person within the video wears a ball cap and masks and is carrying a small skinny case in his left hand. He additionally has a small backpack however totally different than the one carried by the primary man.

Burglaries in New York Metropolis are up 37.2 % to this point in 2022, from 218 final yr to 299 this yr, based on police knowledge.

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