I hope you have, but I also kind of hope you haven’t. The police sketch makes him look like a cold-blooded killer–which, conveniently, he is–but slap a less dead-behind-the-eyes look on his face and he could be behind the counter at the post office. Which maybe isn’t such a good thing either.

This, of course, is the man who killed a Bukharian dentist on a Forest Hills playground right in front of his daughter and wife, who may or may not have something to do with it depending on who you ask and on what day.

If you see him, run. Then call the cops.

Oddly and disturbingly, the second deadly shooting in three weeks has taken place up by the LIE overpass in the North Forest Hills-Rego Park gray area. Unlike the last one, this appears to have a clear motive: a custody dispute. The killing seems to have been carried out by hitmen on a playground in the presence of the victim’s daughter. Charming.

I’m sorry to report that I’ve just learned — from my comments section, of all places — that the woman critically injured after being shot in a parked minivan up near the LIE a little more than a week ago has died. If you want to offer condolences, head over to the post linked above and do it there, as it seems like the family might be reading.

Police made a couple of arrests Tuesday in last Friday’s shooting of two people sitting in a minivan up in the “Rego Hills” netherworld by the LIE. They arrested a 37-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman. A woman’s potential involvement in something like this is an oddity, to be sure.

Still no indication of a motive, but the charges –  attempted murder, robbery, criminal possession of a weapon — seem to point to a botched robbery.

The good news? Four days later, the “extremely” critically injured victim is still alive, which I can only take to be a good sign for her eventual survival. She was shot in the face.

I’m a little late on this one, but in case you didn’t hear about the Forest Hills minivan shooting, well, here you have it. In the kind of crime that doesn’t happen around here too often, two people — a man and a woman — were wounded, one critically, when they were shot in a van parked up by the LIE. It happened in the wee hours of Friday morning. I can’t seem to find much recent reportage on this, but the story is still developing as the crime is being investigated. No word on the latest condition of the critically injured woman, either.

Pretty scary. I always cite the low crime rate as one of the best things about the neighborhood — though this did happen very close to the border with higher-crime Corona. In any event, something like this can happen anywhere; it’s just less likely to happen here.

I should have blogged the big car accident when it happened over the weekend, but I wasn’t sure what I really had to say. What can you say about something like that? Fortunately, Forest Hills 72 comes through in the clutch. The area where three people — including a toddler — were injured in vodka-fueled hit-and-run is indeed an automotive mess. On a scary personal note: I realize now that I was strolling around that very intersection around the time of the accident, give or take a couple hours. And this is where I run out of conclusions to draw, I suppose. Drinking and driving don’t mix, but you knew that.