Crime Blotter
CRAZY BEER As he was being dragged from his overturned Jeep in Queens Saturday night, 58-year-old Richard Shropshire reportedly shouted, "I need another beer!" He was also laughing really hard. It would've been a lot funnier, of course, had he not just run down a 14-year-old girl on the sidewalk, after careening wildly through the streets of Jamaica all hopped up on beer, vodka and smack.
Shropshire's buddy Joe Evans, who'd been drinking with him for a reported 17 hours straight before Shropshire got in the Jeep and sped away, didn't help matters by telling reporters, "We drink crazy beer here. There ain't no stopping us."
A total of seven teens was shot by unidentified gunmen in three separate incidents early Sunday morning.
The incidents occurred between midnight and 2 and took place in Brooklyn and the Bronx. The teens were shot in their arms, ankles, asses, ears and a few other non-threatening places as they were leaving clubs, parties or just standing around on the corner. All are in stable condition, and cops have no suspects in any of the cases.
Vacations can be awfully stressful. After his battered wife told him she was leaving him, 23-year-old British tourist Dwight Wallace tried to convince her to stay by beating her again. The couple, staying at the La Quinta Inn on W. 32nd, was so loud that hotel employees contacted the police. When the cops arrived, Wallace tossed his bloodied wife into the hallway, then jumped to his death from the sixth-floor window.
As it happens, Wallace had been arrested a couple years backfor beating his wife while they were vacationing in New York.
Another couple called it quits in an extreme fashion Wednesday. For reasons not immediately apparent, 28-year-old (and nine months pregnant) Sung-Ann Choi-Lee stabbed and killed her husband Matthew. Then she tried to cut her own wrists before calling the cops. Then she was taken to the hospital, where she was given a C-section. (You'd think she could've saved herself a trip, way things were going.) She's facing murder and weapons charges.
It seems some folks just can't win, even when they're trying to lose. A 67-year-old man with a history of mental problems jumped in front of a train at the Christopher St. 1/9 station at about 10:30 Tuesday night. Unfortunately, he jumped in front of a slow-moving money train. Worse, it was a slow-moving money train that had only just started pulling out of the station. The man was bumped, but not seriously hurt.
And in a rare follow-up, it was learned last week that William Rhode III (a favorite here at Page Two) was freed last week after copping a plea deal. Rhode was arrested last February after stopping into five day care centers looking for work while wearing only a soiled diaper and pink stretch pants. He was facing seven child endangerment charges, but pled guilty to disorderly conduct. He was sentenced to five years' probation, during which time he must undergo psychiatric counseling, stay away from children and always wear a fresh diaper. o