Three intruders climbed onto a balcony and forced their way into a Richmond Hill home at about 4:10 a.m. on September 9, 2026, striking a 30-year-old man in the face with a weapon and firing a gunshot that missed everyone inside before fleeing with a stash of collectible cards. The attack near 101st Street and 85th Road also left a 33-year-old woman and a 60-year-old woman thrown to the ground, and one suspect forcibly ripped the 60-year-old woman’s cellphone from her hands.
According to amNewYork, one of the suspects fired a shot in the direction of the victims, but it missed hitting anyone, per police sources cited in that report. The injured man was taken to Jamaica Hospital for treatment, and his injuries were described as not life-threatening. Officers from the 102nd Precinct responded to the scene, and as of the report, police had made no arrests in the ongoing investigation.
The three unidentified suspects fled southbound along 101st Street after removing collectible cards, amNewYork’s report states. The precinct that covers the crime scene, the NYPD’s 102nd, serves central Queens neighborhoods including Richmond Hill, Kew Gardens, Woodhaven, and northern Ozone Park, with its station house at 87-34 118th Street, according to the NYPD.
A Precinct Already Seeing More Robberies
The invasion lands in a precinct already logging a rise in robberies this year. The 102nd Precinct had recorded 105 robberies year-to-date through September 6, 2026, up 12.9% from 93 robberies over the same period in 2025, per the same amNewYork account. That local uptick echoes a broader pattern Hoodline has tracked in the precinct: NYPD CompStat data covering the week of June 15–21, 2026 showed 161 felony assaults year-to-date in the 102nd, up 15% from 140 during the same span in 2025, a trend detailed in Hoodline’s earlier coverage of a dead-end shooting in the neighborhood…