The Bronx

A University Heights man has been charged with murdering his roommate with a baseball bat, law-enforcement sources said Sunday. Cleto Chalche-Rivera, 39, beat the victim to death over a financial dispute, according to a police source. Israel Ramos-Lopez, 45, was found with his head split open in the bathroom of the apartment he shared with Chalche-Rivera on Morris Avenue near Commerce Avenue at about 12:30 p.m. April 13, police sources said. His roommate was arrested at around 8:15 p.m. Saturday, and faces weapons charges in addition to murder, according to police.

Four people were shot Sunday after a Morris Heights party, cops said. The victims were leaving the house party on University Avenue near West Burnside Avenue at about 1:20 a.m. when a man believed to be in his 20s began to shoot at the crowd, according to police sources. A 25-year-old man was shot in the leg, another man, 55, was struck in the torso, and a woman, 22, sustained a leg wound. A 26-year-old man was grazed in the shoulder. The victims took themselves to Lincoln Hospital. No arrests have been made.

Police knocked down the door of a Mott Haven apartment to rescue a woman in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend Sunday, cops said. When officers arrived on the 12th floor of the building on East 137th Street near Willis Avenue at about 7:30 a.m., they heard a woman inside crying and screaming, police sources said. Her boyfriend refused to open the door for the cops, so they smashed their way in and arrested the man, the sources said. The woman and her three children were taken to an area hospital with minor injuries. The boyfriend was also taken to the hospital for evaluation, the sources said. The name of the man has been withheld pending the filing of charges, cops said.

Brooklyn

A man studying in a Sheepshead Bay park was slashed and robbed Sunday morning by a pedaling pilcher, according to cops. The 28-year-old victim was sitting in Yak Playground at Coyle Street and Avenue Y at about 9:30 a.m. when a man on a bike approached him and asked to use his cellphone, according to police. As the victim handed over his phone, cops said, the thug reached into the man’s pocket and grabbed his wallet while proclaiming, “You are beat!” The victim tried grabbing the thief’s bike, but his attacker slashed him in the stomach with a pocket knife, police said. The thug then dropped the man’s wallet and phone and fled with just $10, cops said.

The crook was described as being in his 20s, about 6-foot-2 and 160 pounds.

Queens

An elderly woman was killed when she smashed her car into a pillar in Ozone Park, cops said Sunday. Carmela Ruotolo, 88, crashed her 2000 Hyundai at 7:40 p.m. April 20 at Crossbay Boulevard and Liberty Avenue, according to police. Ruotolo, from Howard Beach, was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where she died April 24, cops said.

Manhattan

A man was walloped in the head with a bicycle security chain in the West Village, cops said Sunday. An argument escalated into violence at West 13th Street and Washington Avenue at about 1 p.m. April 22, according to law-enforcement sources. Carl Wu, 20, picked up his bicycle lock-chain with the intent to cause physical injury and hit the victim, also 20, in the face, the sources said. The victim’s lip was split, and he was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he got several stitches, police sources said. Wu was charged with felony assault.

A fight broke out in front of a Greenwich Village bar, and one man hurled a glass at a window, injuring people, cops said Sunday. Nathaniel Johnson, 40, allegedly chucked the glass at an open window in front of Author’s Tavern at Grove Street and Seventh Avenue at about 10:30 p.m. on April 23, sources said. The glass hit a bar on the window and shattered, striking two people with shards, the sources said. A witness followed Johnson north on Seventh Avenue for some time, and then police nabbed him, the sources said. He was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Police arrested two women who attacked each other outside an East Harlem party Sunday, cops said. The fight erupted on East 108th Street near Park Avenue at about 3:15 a.m., police said.Catianna McLeod, 30, told cops that Jessica Johnson, 38, bit her and used a Taser on her, police sources said. Johnson said McLeod punched and kicked her, leaving her with swollen eyes and a bloody nose, thee sources said. It is not clear what started the dispute. Both women were treated at Metropolitan Hospital and charged with assault, the sources said.