New York State police are investigating the murder of Kelvin Rolando Cruz Martinez, who was discovered in a wooded area west of the parkway and north of Sunrise Highway on May 8.

A day laborer had been found dead in the same woods last year. Nassau County police had found a 46-year-old Hempstead man dead in a nearby Roosevelt preserve two months ago.

Police said there a $1,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest in Martinez’ case.

Any person with information please contact 631-756-3300 or e-mail tips to lmajcrim@troopers.ny.gov. All calls will be kept confidential.

The 32-year-old man showed up to a meeting on Pine Lake Drive with Kayla Gries, 17, of Malverne, who said she was seeking a job from the victim at 2 a.m. Sunday, police said.

But when Gries walked up to the victim’s car, the driver noticed a man standing near the car, became afraid and drove off, police said. Jason Thurmond, 27, of New Hyde Park, allegedly fired a gunshot into the victim’s car, striking the front dashboard, police said.

Two other suspects were also involved in the robbery try, including 24-year-old Michael Thompson of Lakeview and 27-year-old Jamal Davis of Hempstead, police said.

The victim was not injured and police said they recovered the gun.

All four suspects were charged with attempted robbery.  Gries, Thurmond and Davis were additionally being charged with conspiracy.  Thurmond was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

They are scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead.

Nassau County police said the 49-year-old victim was walking on Margaret Court when James McCullough walked up, pulled out a handgun and  fired several rounds, striking the victim in the left buttock and right forearm shortly before 7 a.m. Friday.

The victim was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and later released.

Third Squad detectives apprehended the 41-year-old suspect, who is known to the victim, at his Roosevelt home on Saturday.

McCullough was charged with second-degree attempted murder, assault, criminal use of a firearm and criminal possession of a weapon. He will be arraigned Sunday at First District Court in Hempstead.

Keon Williams was arrested Saturday and charged with second-degree murder.

Homicide Squad detectives alleged that the 37-year-old Rockville Centre man fatally shot Tyree Sheppard of Hempstead on Sunday, April 14.

A Burnett Street resident found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound lying on the sidewalk within minutes of another murder in the same village.

Williams will be arraigned Sunday at First District Court in Hempstead.

In the first case, two men forced their way into an apartment on Floyd Street in Deer Park and pistol-whipped a woman who was a visitor shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

Then shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday, three men armed with handguns forced their way into a home on Southaven Avenue in Medford and confronted a resident inside, police said.

The attackers in the first case stole a cell phone. The assailants in the second case made off with cash, cigarettes and an iPod.

There were neither arrests nor description of the suspects in either case. Police do not believe the two to be linked.

The back-to-back cases come after a string of 13 armed home invasions in Suffolk in the first three months of this year, three of which involved shootings, one fatal.

Nassau County police meanwhile have reported seven armed home invasions so far this year.

They include unsolved cases in North Woodmere this week, in Elmont last week, as well as three in March in Baldwin, Roosevelt and Hempstead.

Nassau police also arrested alleged home invasion suspects last month in Farmingdale and three attempted Elmont home invasion suspects in February.

David Hernandez, 17, was arrested Saturday and Geovany Hernandez, 20, was taken into custody Sunday. Both are facing charges of attempted murder and assault.

Police said the four suspects, all of whom are from Westbury, attacked the victims, ages 35, 34 and 23, in front of La Casa Del Marisco restaurant on Old Country Road in New Cassel in the early morning hours of Sunday,  March 31.

The victims were taken to a local hospital for treatment of injuries to the face, neck and hands.

Miguel Flores, 22, and Jose Hernandez, 25, were arrested hours later, police said. They were each ordered held on $100,000 bail after being charged with gang assault and other counts.

David and Geovany Hernandez were both additionally charged with possession of a dangerous weapon. They will be arraigned Sunday at First District Court in Hempstead.

Lloyd Williams had been convicted in September at Nassau County court of second-degree murder, manslaughter vehicular manslaughter, assault, vehicular assault, driving while intoxicated and unlicensed operation of a vehicle.

Prosecutors said the 29-year-old and a friend got into a fight with bouncers at Phase Bar in after Williams was thrown out when a shot was fired and a nearby Freeport village police officer responded in the early morning hours of June 18, 2011.

Williams and his friend fled in Williams’ Mitsubishi. Williams blew eight stop signs and six red lights while officers gave chase until he crashed with a Dodge Intrepid at the corner of Guy Lombardo Avenue.

The other driver, 24-year-old Chad Whethers, was killed instantly and his vehicle was cut in half.

Williams’ blood-alcohol content was found to be 0.27 percent and he had marijuana in his system.

He suffered a broken right ankle and his passenger, who was not charged, suffered a broken neck.

Nassau County police arrested a 16-year-old boy who posted a threat on his Facebook page to blow up Mesivta Ateres Yaakov School on Washington Avenue in Lawrence.

The threat was brought to the attention of the principal, who called 911. Police evacuated home on surrounding streets in addition to the school for two hours while the building was searched.

The student, whose name was not released, will be arraigned Wednesday at First District Court in Hempstead on charges of making a terrorist threat and harassment.

While that case was being investigated, an office employee at Unqua Elementary School on Unqua Road in Massapequa received a call from a man who made a terroristic threat against the school, police said.

Police searched the building during the evacuation and determined there were no explosives inside. That case remains under investigation.

The incidents occurred the same day the NYPD investigated a spike in suspicious items, including loose overheard light wires that reportedly forced the brief partial evacuation of LaGuardia Airport.

Detectives request anyone with information regarding this crime to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS.  All callers will remain anonymous.

Nassau County police arrested Tricia Mercier and charged her with burglary, assault, criminal contempt, criminal mischief and criminal possession of a weapon.

Police said Mercier made repeated calls that authorities described as “alarming in nature” to the victim, who later heard a horn honk outside his home and the suspect sitting in her car at 6:30 p.m.

Mercier allegedly walked into the victim’s apartment and struck him in the face with a pair of pliers, breaking his glasses.

The victim was taken to an area hospital for treatment of bruising and lacerations.

Mercier was taken into custody at the scene and will be arraigned Wednesday at First District Court in Hempstead.

Ernest Mitchell got into a fight with the 44-year-old victim at a house on Seitz Avenue when the altercation escalated and Mitchell attacked the victim with a knife shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday, police said.

The 45-year-old man and the victim both fell down a flight of stairs during the struggle, police said.

Hempstead village police officers responded, took Mitchell into custody and recovered a folding knife at the scene, police said.

The victim and Mitchell were taken to area hospitals for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

Mitchell was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon. His bail was set at $10,000 cash or $20,000 bond. He is due back in court Wednesday.