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Brooklyn Man Shoots Himself in the Butt, Then Blames It On Robbers: NYPD

EAST FLATBUSH — Talk about backfiring.

Police arrested a 23-year-old man this week after he shot himself in the buttocks, then claimed he had been robbed and shot while jogging in Wingate Park, police said.

The man walked into Kings County Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound in his rear on Monday, police said, explaining to investigators that he’d gotten the injury during an armed robbery in the park earlier that day.

He said he’d been jogging in Wingate Park at Rutland Road and Brooklyn Avenue when two unknown males forcibly took his wallet, then shot him once in the behind.

Upon investigation, police found the gunshot wound to be self-inflicted; the man then recanted his story about the mugging.

The 23-year-old will face charges for criminal possession of a weapon and filing a false police report, police said.

Other notable crimes in this week’s blotter from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and East Flatbush include:

The map above depicts only those blotter items compiled by DNAinfo New York within the date range indicated, not all crimes that took place in a given precinct. To see all previous crime blotters from this precinct, click here.

► A 35-year-old woman told police she was walking on the corner of President Street and Rochester Avenue around 1:40 p.m. on March 13 when an unknown suspect approached her, asked her for her phone number, then slashed the left side of her face with a razor and snatched her phone and some cash from her hand. The suspect fled in a grey vehicle. The victim was treated for the laceration at Kings County Hospital.

► Police are investigating a series of trash fires set in the neighborhood last week. Two witnesses reported seeing a person light a fire in a trash bin outside 245 Empire Blvd. around 1:35 a.m. on March 9. Upon investigation, fire officials found similar trash fires had been lit outside 485 and 559 Rogers Ave. nearby.

► A 39-year-old man was arrested for exposing himself to a 44-year-old woman on the northbound platform of the Parkside B and Q train station at Ocean and Parkside avenues, police said. The incident happened around 11:35 a.m. on March 9 and the man was arrested a short time afterwards.

► A 37-year-old woman was assaulted and robbed inside a Chinese restaurant after a dispute with another patron there, police said. The woman said the suspect, an unknown female, bought food at Jing Lung restaurant at 1242 Nostrand Ave. at about 9 p.m. on March 9, and then the suspect threw the food on the victim’s husband. When the victim tried to take a picture of the woman, another woman — a friend of the first suspect — punched the 37-year-old in the face and took her iPhone. The two women then fled southbound on Nostrand Avenue in a car.