Brooklyn has been witnessing an uptick in brazen crimes, the NYPD is currently on the lookout for a male suspect responsible for a spate of armed carjackings in Sheepshead Bay. As reported by ABC7 New York, the incidents which took place yesterday evening near East 17th Street and Avenue R, began with an altercation over money leading to the suspect striking a 45-year-old male victim with a firearm. The series of events continued with a purse snatching from a 70-year-old woman and concluded with an attempted car theft of a 2023 Hyundai Sonata after the suspect crashed a stolen black Mercedes.