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The career criminal who was shot by cops after robbing a Brooklyn Dollar Tree at gunpoint is facing attempted murder charges in connection to the stick-up and subsequent gun battle, cops said Thursday.
Clarence Little, 45, was hit with multiple charges Wednesday afternoon – including attempted murder, attempted assault, robbery, weapons possession and resisting arrest.
Little, who lives just blocks from the Rockaway Parkway discount store, is accused of trading gunfire with cops in the armed robbery, authorities said.
The suspect, who was shot in the neck by police, remained hospitalized Thursday morning, cops said.
Little – who was wearing a wig – allegedly held up a store clerk at gunpoint at around 5 p.m. Tuesday and ran right into two arriving officers as he tried to flee with cash.
The cops wrestled with Little and he opened fire on them, prompting one of the officers to fire back, striking him, NYPD Chief of Department Kenneth Corey said.
Sources said Little — who also goes by the aliases “Cho cho” and “Choo choo” — has more than 40 arrests on his record, including 12 felonies and 28 misdemeanors.
He spent about five months behind bars for criminal sale of a controlled substance, a class D felony, before being released on parole in May 2019. His post-release supervision ended in May of last year, records show.
Little was given a desk appearance ticket on Dec. 14 for stealing close to $1,000 in merchandise from Macy’s, law enforcement sources said.
But he neglected to show up to Manhattan Criminal Court for his return date of Dec. 29, and a judge issued a bench warrant, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
A police official called Little “a career criminal robber, drug user, drug seller, weapon carrier” who has “been doing it since he was old enough to get into the criminal justice system.”
“He commits crimes all over the city, from Rockaway to Midtown Manhattan,” the official told The Post. “From selling weed to pissing in the street to turnstile jumping — he’s got it all.”
The official said the case should serve as a wake-up call for progressive district attorneys — from Chicago to Los Angeles and San Francisco and now even Manhattan — who have stopped prosecuting low-level offenses.
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