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.

Over the past two months, the bandits used the popular online bazaar to advertise they were selling a car, investigators said.  On six occasions, they arranged to meet up with someone looking to purchase their vehicle but instead robbed the buyer of the cash earmarked for the auto.

The crew have stolen about $27,000 cash during the heists as well as two cars belonging to their victims, cops said.

The crooks are also wanted for swiping a 26-year-old woman’s car they found unoccupied and running off the Cross Bronx Expressway near Olmstead Ave. in Parkchester on Dec. 29.

They started their Facebook Marketplace spree on March 10 when they showed up at Dark St. and Dyre Ave. to meet a 36-year-old man who wanted to buy the car they had advertised. But once he arrived they brandished the menacing-looking club with nails protruding and robbed him of $3,000.

Two days later, they met up with another potential buyer, this time at Yates and Waring Aves., near the Bronx’s Pelham Parkway neighborhood, and put the 21-year-old man in a chokehold as they stole his cash and cell phone, cops said.

On April 8, the crew struck again, this time at Wilder Ave. and E. 233rd St., about a block from Seton Falls Park. During the afternoon robbery, three of the crooks confronted two men, ages 23 and 55, with a gun and metal bat. They struck the younger man in the head with the bat and fled with $10,000 cash the victims hoped to buy the vehicle with as well as the Honda the two men arrived in, cops said. The struck victim was treated by medics at the scene.

During that robbery, the crooks’ vehicle sported a license plate stolen from a car outside Calvary Hospital earlier that day, cops said.

On April 18 when the crew arranged to sell a car to two men, ages 24 and 29, on Rombouts Ave. near Dark St., about a block from their first Marketplace robbery, cops said. During the “sale” two crooks pulled a gun on the older victim and robbed him of $4,000.

As the month drew to a close, the crew briefly moved their operation to Queens, where they robbed a 55-year-old man on 65th Ave. near 160th St., about a block from the Long Island Expressway. During the April 25 heist, the crooks were posing as car buyers not sellers when they pulled a gun and robbed the victim of his vehicle, cops said.

Four days later, they were back on Rombouts Ave. in the Bronx, robbing a 22-year-old car buyer of $10,000. During the 11 a.m. robbery, the bandits pulled a gun and demanded his cash and cell phone, cops said. The crooks ran off up Rombouts Ave. toward Mount Vernon, across the county line in Westchester, cops said.

The crew’s last known heist occurred May 7 when they lured a 28-year-old man back to Dyre Ave. after advertising a vehicle on Facebook Marketplace. They pulled a knife and robbed the victim of his belongings and again were last seen heading toward Mount Vernon — this time in a gray Mercedes-Benz.

Detectives tied the string of robberies together after recovering surveillance footage of multiple incidents showing the same perpetrators, a police source said.

Facebook created Marketplace in 2016. By 2021, the wildly popular meet-up spot for buyers and sellers was getting more than a billion visitors a month, according to the website bigcommerce.com.

Cops on Tuesday released surveillance images of the suspects and asked the public’s help identifying them and tracking them down. Cops also released screenshots of some of the Facebook profiles they used to lure victims.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

“We have the largest bus fleet in America, what with 6,000 buses,” NYC Transit President Richard Davey said Tuesday, standing before the two new buses in the garage of the Grand Ave. depot in Maspeth.

“We will be transitioning over the coming years to make sure every bus is zero emission across the city,” he said.

The 60 buses were ordered for $64 million in 2021 from manufacturer New Venture — a bill footed by federal dollars from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, transit officials said.

The buses feature regenerative braking and are expected to get between 80-90 miles of range on a charge in typical local service.

The first of the buses, including the pair unveiled Tuesday, will operate on local routes out of the Grand Ave. depot, which is also home to 17 new pantograph chargers. The chargers, which lower a power connection to the roof of parked buses, are meant to ease the logistics of fleetwide charging.

Another 46 such chargers are planned in the coming months for depots around the city, and an on-street charger is being built for MTA buses at the Williamsburg Bridge bus terminal at the span’s Brooklyn side.

The chargers can top a bus off from empty in six hours, said Frank Annicaro, transit’s bus boss.

The 60-bus order consists entirely of 40-foot buses intended for local routes. Sixteen of those buses are slated to go to the Grand Ave. depot, the home base of the B24, B32, B39, B47, B48, B57, B60, B62, and Q59 routes.

A dozen of the new buses will operate out of the Charleston depot on Staten Island, 10 buses will go to the Michael J. Quill depot in Manhattan, and the remaining 22 will be based out of the East New York depot.

MTA brass hope to have a fully electric bus fleet by 2040.

The transit agency put in another order to New Venture last year, buying 205 battery-powered buses for $286 million.

The bulk of that order consists of 187 40-foot electric buses for local service, to be bought for $1.3 million apiece.

Though MTA leadership has expressed reservations over the reliability of the currently available electric articulated buses, 18 of the buses ordered last year are articulated 60-footers. Articulated buses are mainstays of the MTA’s express Select Bus Service routes, including those that run on major crosstown Manhattan streets.

The coming articulated buses will cost the MTA $2.1 million apiece.

In addition to the two buses unveiled Tuesday, the MTA currently runs 15 electric articulated buses out of the Michael J. Quill bus depot in west Midtown.

Officers responding to a 911 call about a stabbing in an apartment hosting a Rego Park party appeared startled when they encountered the man in a hallway.

Cops had just climbed a flight of stairs to the second floor shortly before 7 p.m. on March 8 and opened the door to the hallway when they saw Dgamshed Nematov about two doors down. He had just stabbed his wife.

The videos show Nematov charging with the knife in his right hand in their direction before the first of four shots ring out, just five seconds after the hallway door was opened.

Two officers fired the four shots. A responding sergeant fired his Taser.

“Whoa,” one of the officers shouts. “Put it down.”

Nematov does not comply and charges two steps toward the cops before the gunfire echoes off the hallway walls.

A woman screams in the background.

The officers performed CPR on Nematov before medics rushed him to an area hospital, where he died from his wounds. The knife was recovered at the scene.

“This situation was fast-paced and dynamic,” NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said at a news conference shortly after the incident.

Officials said Nematov, 46,  had stabbed his wife, Amira, with a long, serrated kitchen knife at what had been a joyous first birthday party for their grandchild.

The party at the 62nd Ave. home was also International Women’s Day, an important holiday in some former Soviet republics, relatives said.

Amira suffered two knife wounds to her stomach, both inflicted before officers arrived at the scene, police said. She was treated at a local hospital.

Nematov and Amira have two boys and two girls between the ages of 14 and 23, friends said.

The NYPD identified the officers involved as Kimberly O’Rourke, Michael Tavares and Sgt. Raymond Decostanzo. O’Rouke was the first in the hallway, followed by Tavares and Decostanzo.

O’Rourke fired one shot. Tavares fired three and Decostanzo fired his Taser.

The incident is also being investigated by state Attorney General Letitia James’ Office of Special Investigation, which looks at police-involved shootings.

Debbie Villanueva, who recently moved to Rockaway Beach from Brooklyn, was attacked unloading groceries as she spoke on her iPhone with her sister.

“I’m just in a lot of pain right now,” Villanueva told the Daily News on Tuesday morning.

Villanueva parked her Nissan Rogue outside her building on Beach 96th St. near Rockaway Beach Blvd. about 11:30 p.m. on Friday.

But before she could get to the entrance of her building, she was approached by two men from across the street.

Villanueva “immediately knew what was going to happen” and told her sister to call 911, she told ABC7 New York.

She moved away from the steps in a failed attempt to dodge the man closest to her.

Video shows that man pulling at her belongings. She moved to her right, but then the crook clocked her on the left side of her head.

Villanueva fell to the ground, her head striking the sidewalk, and lost consciousness.

At that point, the crook who punched her and the second man tore through her pockets, stealing her phone, $90 cash and the keys to her Rogue.

The crooks took off in her SUV along with three accomplices who were lurking nearby during the attack.

The SUV was later found in Brownsville, Brooklyn, police said, but the attackers are still being sought.

“This could have happened to anybody,” Villanueva told ABC7.  “I just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.”

She suffered a concussion, with doctors needing staples to close the gash on her head. She was on painkillers and still recovering Tuesday morning.

“I’m grateful just to be OK,” she told ABC7.

“Emotionally I don’t know yet. I’m gonna be honest with you; I don’t know if it has hit me yet. But I’m gonna take it one day at a time. What else can I do?”

At Queens Supreme Court, they pointed to a 2020 text from defendant Dorothy Hirsch’s brother to her as proof she owned the stash.

“Bring your 9mm when you come and we’ll do some training,” the missive stated.

victim Zhiwen Yan, 45 pictured with his wife Eva Zhao in a wedding photo

The defense argued that the text was meant for Glenn Hirsch, not his widow.

“This defendant knowingly possessed eight illegal firearms and over 400 rounds of ammunition in her home where she lived alone,” Assistant District Attorney Kanella Georgopoulos said in her opening statement.

Dorothy Hirsch, 64, is charged with 18 criminal counts of violating city and state weapons possession laws — including possession of loaded guns.

The eight weapons were found during a search of her Briarwood apartment after Glenn Hirsch was arrested for murder. The defendant maintains that everything in that closet belonged to her husband, saying it was filled with only his belongings.

Detective Todd Keyes of the 112th Precinct testified that along with the guns, a traffic ticket in Glenn Hirsch’s name and men’s clothing were found in the closet.

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“Items that belong to Glenn Hirsch,” Keyes said after reviewing what was written on the warrant to search Dorothy Hirsch’s home on June 1, 2022. “I do not see her name in this document.”

Speaking of the overall condition of Dorothy Hirsch’s home, Keyes described it as “not overly organized, but not a hoarder.”

“Not a hoarder, those are interesting words — are you aware Glenn Hirsch was a hoarder?” asked Mark Bederow, Dorothy Hirsch’s lawyer.

“I’m aware that he is someone that people referred to as a hoarder,” replied Keyes.

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Keyes also said the closet in question was the only one of the five in the defendant’s home that was in a state of disarray.

But when cross-examined by Assistant District Attorney Thomas Salmon, Keyes said he had no idea who was responsible for the guns and other items in the hall closet.

While out on $500,000 bail, Glenn Hirsch shot and killed himself on Aug. 5, 2022, with a gun that had not been discovered during a police search of his home. In a six-page suicide note, he railed against the press and swore his estranged wife was innocent of any charges.

Police were called to the building on Queens Blvd. near 62nd Ave. in Rego Park just before 12:55 p.m. after residents reported a foul odor.

“It smelled for at least two weeks,” said one resident, who did not provide her name. “It got a little stronger, maybe because it got warmer.”

The person’s body was found in bushes underneath scaffolding and was so badly decomposed, it was not immediately clear if it was a man or a woman.

“I could smell it just passing by, I was thinking it was a dead rat or something like that,” said a resident who only identified himself as Jerry. “I’ve been in this building 27 years and I’ve never seen something like that.”

The city Medical Examiner will determine how the person died.

The victim was walking in the eastbound left lane when a Toyota RAV4 driver slammed into him near Exit 11 in Forest Hills at about 12:50 a.m., police said.

Medics took the victim to Jamaica Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved. Cops were working to determine his identity.

The 22-year-old RAV4 driver remained at the scene and faced no immediate charges.

“I want to see this guy locked up. I’m going to trust the justice system and let them do their job,” Charles Marino said of the worker who killed Dylan Marino, 21, in a confrontation over a stolen beer on May 7. “I’m very hopeful that they will do a complete, thorough investigation.”

The 21-year-old bodega worker was taken into custody Tuesday and released that evening without charges. Members of a city bodega organization have claimed the worker acted in self-defense.

The 58-year-old father was joined at the send-off by dozens of tearful mourners at St. Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Church in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Pictures of Marino through the years were displayed near his casket, and incense smoke filled the room.

“I think my son would’ve liked his own funeral,” the victim’s mother Kate Dessommes said with a smile. “He liked incense and there was a lot of incense.”

“He was the most beautiful, caring human I ever knew. He will be so, so profoundly missed,” Marino’s father said. “This has been the hardest situation that I ever experienced, it’s just unimaginable.”

Marino walked inside Mini Mart on Queens Blvd. near 64th Rd. in Rego Park at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, swiped a beer from the fridge and left, cops said.

The clerk behind the counter, identified by United Bodegas of America as Netesh Netesh, followed Marino outside and demanded he return the stolen item, sparking a violent fight between the two men, cops said.

During the brawl, Netesh stabbed would-be shoplifter Marino with a pocketknife, Fernando Mateo of UBA said at a news conference outside the store.

“He did not leave this bodega to murder anyone,” Mateo said. “He was robbed. He came out to claim what he believed was his [and] he was attacked. His life was in danger and he had a pocketknife which we believe he used to defend himself.”

Marino’s mother previously told The News that she’d like the bodega to close down as “retribution.”

Netesh is related to the Mini Mart owner and has never been in trouble with the law before, said Mateo.

Marino had three prior arrests in the city, including an arrest for shoplifting in March, attempted robbery in October, and assault in March 2023, cops said.

Marino’s father acknowledged it was wrong for him to shoplift, but argued that the worker never should have followed him outside.

“It was completely wrong for him to lose his life over a stupid beer. He lost his life over a beer and the guy didn’t have to give chase over a beer,” said the father. “I get it you didn’t want to be stolen from and this and that, but he had limited means, he wanted a beer, he grabbed a beer, and it wasn’t worth his life.”

A spokesperson for the Queens District Attorney’s office said, “This is an ongoing investigation and we have no comment.”

Relatives recalled Marino as a sensitive, artistic kid who always had several interests at a time growing up in Portland, Oregon. Marino wound up in Queens in 2021 after his mother made the move to New York.

“He loved music, he liked skateboarding, he liked rap and [rapper] Juice WRLD. He was very interested in working in music. He liked to rap and sing and do his beats,” his mother, Dessommes said.

“I’ll never in this waking world get to hear his voice again,” the elder Marino said emotionally. “Everywhere I look, I’ll see him, I’ll feel him in my house, I’ll never as long as I live forget him.”

Wearing white coveralls, the girl stood before Judge Michael Hartofilis, at one point looking at her parents and smiling. She was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon and remanded without bail. She’s due back in court on Tuesday.

Police and prosecutors said Rivera and her accused killer both attended Queens Technical High School in Long Island City and knew each other. On Wednesday, the girls were hanging out together at a Wendy’s restaurant in Sunnyside, but got into a verbal disagreement that escalated when the 15-year-old took a knife from her bag and stabbed Rivera in the neck near the Queens Blvd. entrance to the 46th-Bliss Street subway station.

The girl dropped a kitchen knife at the scene and took off, police said. She was chased down by a witness, but she took out another knife and slashed at the man, according to prosecutors.

Officers nabbed her at the Flushing-Main St. station, her clothes covered in blood. Cops found a knife covered in blood at the scene, according to court documents.

Medics rushed Rivera to Elmhurst Hospital Center, but she could not be saved.

Rivera, a high school senior, was beloved by her two older brothers and one older sister, family members told the Daily News after her death.

“She wasn’t just a sister, she was a best friend to me. She was always listening to what I had to say. She would always tell me her problems,” said one of her older brothers, who did not want to give his name.

“Overall she was a good person. … Not every friend was there for her but the ones that were definitely friends for life,” he said.

“She loved to go outside, she loved to explore and travel to different parts of New York City.”

At a memorial for Rivera Thursday outside the Queens subway station where she was killed, friends of the slain teen broke down in tears.

“I’m sorry that this happened to you,” 19-year-old Jasaiah Ortega said, covering his face with his t-shirt as he cried.

On Friday afternoon, the accused girl’s mother sobbed quietly as prosecutors detailed the killing, at one point throwing her head back and opening her mouth in a silent cry, her arms splayed outward.

Prosecutors said the girl gave chilling statements to detectives the night of the stabbing.

“I promise you those b—–s are dead because they are f—–g b—–s not because of this,” she told police, according to prosecutors.

“I hope [Rivera] dies.”