Two more men wanted for $500,000 jewelry heist in New York that injured a 79-year-old woman

On Sunday, the NYPD released photos exposing two more men allegedly involved in a half-million-dollar robbery of a Queens jewelry store last week, in which an elderly woman was beaten with a gun by brazen crooks.

Police said the new suspects — one pictured wearing a Los Angeles Lakers sweatshirt and the other dressed entirely in black — are believed to be accomplices of two robbers who broke into the Diamond Collect in downtown Flushing and made off with $500,000 worth of jewelry.

The disturbing video shows the moment when heartless thieves burst into the store past a 79-year-old woman desperately trying to hold them back.

“They put a gun to her head and said, ‘Open the safe! Open the safe! But my mom didn’t know. She was completely terrified,” store owner Eva Chen, 43, told The Post of the horror in broad daylight.

Chen said her mother, Yuchi Lin, 79, had just flown in from Taiwan for a visit a few hours earlier when her daughter went out for lunch and left her in charge of the store around 2:30 pm on Feb. 22.

She told The Post that someone wearing an Amazon courier jacket left a package outside the door while Chen was gone.

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The man then hid in a nearby flight of stairs with an accomplice, waiting for an unsuspecting senior to come after him, according to Chen, who described her family as “close friends” of Mayor Eric Adams.

“My mom didn’t know” that the famous delivery man was still around, Chen said.

“She waited 3-4 minutes – she thought that the guy had already left. So she opened the door to pick up the package, but the guy immediately ran into her and then yelled at the other guy who was hiding downstairs to get up.”

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Once inside, the thieves demanded that the elderly woman open the safe, but she was unable to.

Authorities say the jewel thieves “punched, kicked and hit a 79-year-old employee in the head with a gun” during a violent robbery.

A police spokeswoman said she could not provide any details about the involvement of the two new suspects.