[NYPOST] A career criminal with a lengthy rap sheet, including slugging a 76-year-old man in January, is charged with shooting a tourist for his pricey watch outside a four-star Midtown hotel, police told The Post Wednesday.Nathaniel Owens, 35, who is also on parole for a 2012 weapons rap, was hit with attempted murder charges in the March 18 attack outside the Fifty Hotel & Suites by Affinia in Midtown, the NYPD said.He was arraigned Wednesday and ordered held without bail.
Prosecutors said Owens attacked tourist Pierrick Jamaux, 33, who was visiting from Hong Kong, and shot him multiple times in the legs and groin to get at his $100,000 Richard Mille timepiece.
Jamaux frequently flashed the ritzy watch on social media.
The cryptocurrency expert later told The Post that he had "absolutely no clue who did this" — only that it was "to steal my watch."
