Inwood Watch Robbery Ended In Gunfire Days Before Fatal Shooting

INWOOD, NY — In the wake of a violent robbery on Dyckman Street that left the father of two boys, Milton Grant, 34, dead — the New York Police Department has released video of a different robbery that happened 10 days earlier in Inwood, which also involved firearms and stolen jewelry.

On June 11, at around 1:27 a.m. in the vicinity of 565 West 207th Street, four people ran up on a 23-year-old man, grabbed him, and began attempting to remove his jewelry, according to police.

After the man resisted, one of the attackers fired a gun multiple times, hitting the 23-year-old in his chest, butt, and leg, police said. The group then ripped a watch off the man's hand and fled in a white Mercedes-Benz driven by a fifth individual, a police spokesperson told Patch.

The 23-year-old was taken to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in stable condition.

In many ways, the attack mirrors the robbery that left Grant dead just half a mile away on June 21.

Grant was sitting in a car with a friend at 175 Dyckman Street when a group of attackers rushed the car and shot him in the head, according to police. A surveillance video shows the man who shot Grant jumping into the car and taking his chain, watch and ring, while the Queens resident died in the driver's seat.

The other passenger was also shot and had his chain necklace stolen, but survived, police said.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

Read More:

• Man Shot In The Head And Killed On Dyckman Street: Police
  
• Dramatic Video Shows Deadly Dyckman Street Robbery