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Man sleeping in car robbed at gunpoint

A man sleeping in his car in Hempstead early Sunday awoke to find a 9-mm handgun pressed to his head and two men demanding money, police said.

Giovany Antunez, 37, and an accomplice had approached the man, who was parked on Elk Street around 4 a.m., police said.

After the men took the victim's cell phone and $43, police said, a struggle ensued. The victim grabbed the barrel of the gun,...

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