A large fight among about 10 people broke out in front of NYCHA’s South Jamaica Houses on 160th St. near Tuskegee Airman Way in South Jamaica just before 7:45 p.m., cops and witnesses said.

“They were fighting at first,” said an 82-year-old witness. “There were three shots, it stopped and then about two more. People were screaming, ‘They’re shooting! They’re shooting!’”

When the gunfire stopped, a black Hyundai with two men inside took off, police sources said.

Cops were called to the street, where they discovered the young victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the arm.

Medics rushed the girl to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in stable condition.

Later, two women ages 18 and 26 walked into Jamaica Hospital Medical Center for medical help, police said.

The older woman was stabbed in the chest and the younger one had lacerations to the head. Both were expected to survive their injuries.

The mayhem came a day after the oldest victim and her boyfriend were beat up by people who live in a neighboring building, a witness told the Daily News.

“They’re out front all day fighting and shooting craps,” the woman said of the people involved in the fight. “They’re out of control.”

There were no immediate arrests.

Juanita Vidal was running an errand for her 17-year-old grandson’s birthday with her 44-year-old daughter at the same time officers from the NYPD’s 83rd precinct attempted to pull over the driver of a blue Mazda CX-5 with Massachusetts plates at the corner of Eldert St. and Wilson Ave. in Bushwick around 5 p.m. May 9.

The driver instead took off northbound on Eldert St. and blew through two stop signs a block away at the intersection of Knickerbocker Ave. and Eldert St., cops said.

Video viewed by the Daily News showed the driver streaking through the intersection as police followed close behind. Just off camera, in the crosswalk, the driver slammed into Vidal and her 44-year-old daughter.

She was taken to Wyckoff Hospital but could not be saved. Her daughter, Jessica Vidal, was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center in stable condition.

The city Medical Examiner deemed Vidal’s death a homicide, cops said Wednesday.

Police are still looking for the driver, who ditched the totaled car after the crash and fled onto an L train at the nearby Halsey St. Station.

The driver was described by cop sources as a man with a ponytail wearing gray sweatpants.

The 29-year-old victim and the gunman got into a fight on an A train, which spilled out onto the corner of W. 145th St. and St. Nicholas Ave. upstairs, according to witness Rashard Flowers, who was in the same subway car.

“It was definitely four shots,” the 37-year-old told the Daily News. “He was shot in the arm and leg, his head was bleeding but he was able to get up.”

The victim ran into a Dunkin’ Donuts, where he collapsed.

“I’ve never heard gunshots so close and so loud,” said Flowers. “There are women and children out here — anybody could’ve gotten hit.”

The gunman took off on foot as cops raced to the scene just after 4:35 p.m., police said.

Medics took the victim to Harlem Hospital, where he was expected to survive.

There were no immediate arrests.

Employees at Rothschild TLV on Lexington Ave. near E. 79th St. arrived to work Wednesday morning to discover one of the tall front windows had been shattered overnight.

The manager and owner of the spot reviewed surveillance footage, which caught a man approaching the window at around 2:10 a.m., he said.

“We saw him on the footage,” Mike Kalbo told the Daily News. “His face was covered with a scarf. It was very difficult to see. He came with a tool in his hand to break the glass. We were targeted.”

The NYPD could not immediately provide details and it has not been determined the restaurant was targeted for serving kosher eats, though the department’s Hate Crime Task force has been notified of the incident.

The vandalism echoed a recent incident on the opposite side of town.

In March, Israeli restaurant Effy’s Cafe on W. 96th St. near Columbus Ave. on the Upper West Side was vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti.

The metal gate covering the cafe was covered with red paint at night, while “form line here to support genocide” was spray-painted in black on the sidewalk just outside the entrance. Another sidewalk message, painted green, read “Free Gaza.”

Kalbo believes his restaurant, named after a lively boulevard in Tel Aviv, was picked out by a vandal with similar intentions.

“What else could it be?” the restaurateur said. “A crazy person wouldn’t come with his face covered and a tool in his hand. It’s obvious. There is no doubt.”

The incident came on the heels of scores of protests across the city, including several pro-Palestinian encampments at city universities and colleges that ended in hundreds of arrests.

On Wednesday night, a small group of pro-Palestinian students said they were “occupying” the lobby of the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown, though they left after declaring victory and saying administrators had agreed to forward their demands to the entire student body.

Meanwhile, antisemitism has surged in the city since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, prompting a ferocious war in Gaza. Antisemitic hate crimes more than doubled that month alone.

As of April 14, there were 96 hate-fueled incidents targeting Jewish people, according to NYPD stats. The figure marked a 45% uptick compared with the same time frame last year, when cops investigated 66 antisemitic hate crimes.

The attacks against Jewish New Yorkers made up 56% of all hate-motivated crimes across the five boroughs, the stats showed.

Wednesday’s incident left Rothschild TLV manager Deana Pekanovic rattled.

“I was shocked,” she said. “It’s really horrible this happened. It’s been a while since the war started, and we’ve never had any issues here. We’ve only had support. We’ve never had any problems.”

The gold seized by the FBI actually belong to the powerful New Jersey Democrat’s second wife, Nadine, and he had no idea she had any gold other than her family’s gold, Menendez’s lawyer Avi Weitzman told jurors in Manhattan Federal Court.

And the cash, found stashed throughout the house, was money Menendez withdrew bit by bit over three decades, keeping it in the house because of generational trauma, Weitzman said. His parents were Cuban refugees who lost everything but the cash they hid in a grandfather clock, so he knew the value of keeping money in the house, the lawyer said.

“Of course there’s an elephant in the room, a green and gold elephant,” Weitzman said. “There are innocent explanations for the gold and the cash.”

Menendez, 70, who’s served as a U.S. senator since 2006, is accused of accepting bribes from N.J. businessmen Wael Hana, Fred Daibes and Jose Uribe in exchange for using his influence as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to benefit Egypt and Qatar, and to interfere with criminal investigations in New Jersey.

Hana and Daibes are also standing trial, while Uribe has turned government cooperator. Menendez’s wife, Nadine, faces a separate trial in July.

In an opening argument that stretched over an hour, Weitzman used a flashy slide presentation that riffed off the popular “Where’s Waldo” children’s books, with an image titled “Where’s Bob?” to suggest that he had no involvement with any financial dealings between his wife and businessmen like Daibes.

He started dating his wife in 2018 and moved into her New Jersey home in 2020, the year they were married.

“Nadine had financial concerns that she kept from Bob. She was often supported by others,” Weitzman said. “But she kept Bob sidelined from those conversations. And you’ll see that in black and white.”

“Where’s Bob? I’ll tell you where, he was doing his job, in the nation’s capital.”

Weitzman said that the gold bars found by the feds, which prosecutors say came from Daibes, were actually found in his wife’s locked closet, and Menendez didn’t know what she had in there.

“He knew that she had family gold,” Weitzman said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz argued that the gold and cash were the price of Menendez selling out his country, as was a new Mercedes-Benz convertible for Nadine that Uribe paid for.

“He was powerful. He was also corrupt. For years, Robert Menendez betrayed the people he was supposed to serve by taking bribes,” she said. “This was not politics as usual. This was politics for profit … Robert Menendez was a United States senator on the take.”

Menendez, who was previously charged with corruption in a separate case that ended in a mistrial, was running a multi-pronged bribery scheme with his wife as a go-between, Pomerantz said.

The prosecutor described Hana as a failed businessman with connections to the Egyptian government. Hana, she said, bribed Menendez to leak nonpublic information about the U.S. embassy to Egyptian officials, to secretly ghost write a letter meant to respond to other senators’ concerns about human rights abuses, and to help approve the sale of almost $100 million of tank ammunition to Egypt.

Hana got a benefit of his own — a monopoly on the export of halal meat from the U.S. to Egypt, at the expense of other U.S. companies that used to do that business, the prosecutors said. And when a USDA official voiced concerns, Menendez tried to run interference and muscle that official into backing down, she said. The attempt didn’t shake the official’s attempts, but Egypt still gave Hana the monopoly, she said.

Menendez also tried to pressure the N.J. attorney general and the state’s U.S. attorney into dropping criminal cases against pals of Uribe and Daibes, the prosecutor said.

Menendez’s defense lawyer said all of his actions were just part of the normal duties of being a senator — taking interest in international matters and issues that impact his constituents. The senator had no power over the criminal cases, Weitzman said, and he was just asking about allegations that Latino businessmen were being targeted for selective prosecution.

“That’s not illegal. You may not like it. But it’s not illegal,” he said. “Listening to a friend is not a crime.”

The trial continues tomorrow with opening arguments from Hana and Daibes’ lawyers

The Town of Greece Police Department said in a statement that the threat was made on Snapchat against Arcadia Middle School. The message was reported by Greece Central School District security just after 6 a.m.

“We worked with security to mitigate the danger and disruption to students, staff, and parents,” the police department said.

The author of the Snapchat post was identified as a 13-year-old female student at the school who was later charged with making a terroristic threat and falsely reporting an incident in the first degree — both Class D felonies.

The specifics of the threat were not made public. The girl’s identity was not released.

“The student was issued an expedited appearance ticket returnable to Monroe County Probation. We appreciate the quick response and work done cooperatively between the school district and our officers,” the police department said.

The incident comes less than two weeks after a transphobic and homophobic bomb threat was made at Arcadia High School, leading to an evacuation. The threat referenced a fight that had occurred in the girls’ restroom earlier in February, but the school did not offer additional details.

Costas Alestas, 43, of Palmer Township, was arraigned Wednesday on multiple criminal charges and then sent to Northampton County Prison on $500,000 bail, according to arrest records.

Authorities were made aware of possible misconduct involving Alestas and a minor on May 1, Bethlehem Police Department Cpt. Nicholas Lechman said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

Officials with the Bethlehem Area School District contacted police regarding an alleged inappropriate relationship between a 14-year-old female student at East Hills Middle School and Alestas, who served as the school’s resource officer.

According to Lechman, Alestas was immediately placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, but has since been fired.

On May 2, investigators conducted an “extensive interview” with the girl, who said she had been in contact with Alestas.

After the victim’s mother discovered text messages exchanged between the two, Alestas “began using a second phone” to contact the girl.

Their conversations initially involved planning to meet to engage in sexual acts, the girl told detectives, but eventually progressed to “several encounters involving sexual contact between the two.”

Those encounters occurred both at school, during school days, and outside, when he would drop her off in areas near her home so they wouldn’t get caught.

During an encounter at school, Alestas sexually assaulted her while wearing his police uniform, officials said.

A search through his cellphone also produced an “upskirt” video of an 11-year-old girl at the school, police said.

In a message posted online, the Bethlehem Area School District said officials became aware of allegations of misconduct on April 29, “when a student shared information with their guidance counselor.”

“The alleged inappropriate behavior violates community trust in our schools, undermines safety, and is illegal, intolerable, and inexcusable,” officials said.

According to the district, Alesas also served as a soccer coach for the school.

Alestas is charged with felonies of statutory sexual assault, institutional sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with someone younger than 16, and criminal use of a communications facility, as well as a misdemeanor of invasion of privacy.

Dontay Prophet, 33, was arrested and accused of whipping the child with a charging cable and putting him in a chokehold at Destiny Leadership Academy, a private school in Ocala.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said there’s surveillance video of the abuse, which lasted for nearly an hour.

“Surveillance footage captured [Prophet] grabbing the victim, restraining him on the ground, and employing a chokehold,” the sheriff’s office said. “Prophet can be seen on camera using a charging cable to strike the child, causing the child to fall and sustain injuries.”

Deputies said at one point the child tried to escape and hide under a table but was grabbed again, after which Prophet “slapped the child in the face, and subjected him to further physical abuse.”

Prophet claimed he was trying to stop the student from harming himself, but deputies said the video evidence contradicted his statement.

Prophet was previously arrested for inappropriately touching a boy at his home in 2019 but those charges were ultimately dropped, officials said.

The school said Prophet was on administrative leave pending an investigation.

Prophet is being held without bond on charges of aggravated child abuse and false imprisonment of a child under the age of 13.

The identity and age of the child was not released.

The sheriff’s office said it was investigating what events occurred leading up to the assault.

Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the death of Alexa Bartell in suburban Denver, prosecutors said.

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Karol-Chik took a plea deal in exchange for prosecutors dropping first-degree murder charges, according to the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

“Karol-Chik knowingly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death, under circumstances evidencing an attitude of universal malice manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life,” the office said in a statement.

On April 19, 2023, Karol-Chik and two pals — Zachary Kwak and Joseph Koenig — drove around the west Denver suburbs throwing large rocks at other vehicles, police said. The teens struck seven vehicles during their chaotic spree.

Three other drivers were injured by the rocks, while Bartell, 20, was killed when a rock smashed through her windshield.

According to police, Karol-Chik passed Koenig the rock that killed Bartell, and Koenig threw it. Kwak, allegedly in the back seat, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last week and faces between 20 and 32 years in prison.

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Koenig has pleaded not guilty and is set to stand trial beginning July 19. Kwak and Karol-Chik both agreed to testify against Koenig as part of their plea deals.

The two students, ages 15 and 17, faced off at the Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School on W. 49th St. near 10th Ave. about 1:20 p.m. on Tuesday, police said. The younger teen was slashed in the face while the older boy was stabbed in the chest during the clash.

Both were taken to area hospitals with minor wounds, cops said. About three hours later, cops charged each boy with assault for attacking the other. The teens’ names were not released because of their age, police said.

The school was put into a soft lockdown following the clash, an Education Department spokesman said. Students were told to move out of sight and keep silent while teachers checked the hallway, locked classroom doors and turned off the lights.

The school is nonscanning, meaning students are not required to walk through metal detectors on their way in, sources said.

About the same time in the Bronx, a 15-year-old boy attending the Evander Childs Educational Campus on E. Gun Hill Road near Bronxwood Ave. in Williamsbridge was slashed in the back of the neck during a fight with an older boy.

The teen refused medical attention, and the 17-year-old who attacked him was charged with assault, cops said.

And about 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday, an 18-year-old student at the Queens High School of Teaching, Liberal Arts and Sciences was stabbed in the back and slashed in the left arm during a fight with a fellow student. No arrests have been made in that incident.